Sarah Elizabeth Carter Huddleston

Sarah Elizabeth Carter Huddleston, 98, of Dublin, passed away Saturday, September 13, 2008 at Lewis Gale Medical Center, Salem. She was born February 24, 1910 in Bedford, Virginia, the first daughter of eight children born to the late Mortimor Alexander Carter and Ella Burnett Carter. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Frank Kenneth Huddleston, two brothers, Boyce Carter and Lloyd Carter, and one sister, Eva Pierce. Elizabeth was a graduate of Bedford High School and National Business College. She retired from the office of Hoover Color Corporation and Hercules, having worked first at the Dublin Bagging Plant during World War II, then the Hiwassee plant and later Pulaski. She was a past Worthy Matron of the former Dublin OES, Newbern Homemakers, and Dublin Garden Clubs. She was a member of the Dublin Baptist Church. Her joys in life were her family, church, writing poetry and short stories, traveling, gardening, flowers, the love of all animals and playing piano. Survivors are a daughter and son-in-law, Betty Anne and Dallas Cox, of Dublin. She was known as "Shotsie" to her two granddaughters, Lisa Cox, Dublin and Renee Jucker and husband, Markus, Renton, Washington; two great-grandchildren, Joseph Jucker and Katherine Jucker, Renton, Wash.; brother, Jackson Carter and wife, Lillie Carter, Bedford; sisters, Doris Reynolds, Bedford, Nora Blackstone, El Sobrante, Calif. and Bernice Adams, Fairfax; brothers-in-law, Allen Huddleston and Sherman Pierce, both of Bedford; and many nieces and nephews. Graveside funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 11 a.m. in Highland Memory Gardens, Dublin, with the Rev. Dennis Jones officiating. Following the service, family and friends will meet at the Fellowship Hall of the Dublin Baptist Church. The family will receive friends Monday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. at Bower Funeral Chapel, Pulaski or at the home of Dallas and Betty Cox, 217 Giles Avenue, Dublin. Memorials may be sent to the Family Life Center, c/o Dublin Baptist Church, P.O. Box 669, Dublin, VA 24084. To send online condolence messages to the family, visit www.bowerfuneralhome.com. The family wishes to express their sincere appreciation to her compassionate caregivers, Joan Carter, Joyce Taylor, Julie Woodyard, Connie Shopshear, and Barbara Phillips. Bower Funeral Chapel, Pulaski is handling the arrangements for the family.