DOROTHY SHARP CARTER

CARTER DOROTHY SHARP CARTER On January 19, 2016, Dorothy Sharp Carter, 94, of Reston, VA, passed away. Mrs. Carter was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 22, 1921, to Dr. William Barnard and Alice Percy Sharp. She grew up in Galveston, Texas, and in Chicago. Mrs. Carter received a B.A. degree from Mills College, Oakland, California, and earned secondary school teaching credentials, also from Mills College, in 1945. In the summer of 1945, after teaching one semester of junior high school in California, she was offered a position to teach English at the Costa Rican North American Cultural Center in San Jose, Costa Rica, at a time when teaching English as a second language was just beginning. In April, 1946, she married Albert Edwin Carter, Cultural Attaché at the American Embassy in San Jose. For the next 23 years, she accompanied her husband to various embassy locations where he was posted as a member of the United States Foreign Service, including Uruguay, Washington, DC, Panama, Germany, and Paraguay. Mr. Carter retired in 1969, and they made their home in Austin, Texas until his death in 1992, when she moved to Herndon, Virginia to live with her youngest daughter, Sally. Mrs. Carter''s main interests were playing tennis and writing children''s books. The Enchanted Orchard was published by Harcourt Brace in 1972; Greedy Mariana was published by Atheneum in 1973; and His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut, was published by Lippincott in 1983. Mrs. Carter was predeceased by both her parents and her sister Gloria Sharp. She is survived by four children, a son, Robert Sharp Carter, of Richmond, Virginia; and three daughters, Janet Eastmary Carter-Kessler, of San Francisco, California; Deborah Cass Carter, of Austin, Texas; and Alice Priscilla (Sally) Carter, of Reston, Virginia; six grandchildren, Emily Meyer and Olivia Meyer, of Reston, Virginia; Patrick Kessler, of San Francisco, California and Christopher Kessler of Davis, California; Andrew Blank and Kristen Blank Warner of Austin, Texas; and two great grandchildren, Weston and Emery Warner, also of Austin, Texas. A private memorial service will be held for the family on January 28, 2016, in Washington, DC. A private memorial service will be held for the family on January 28, 2016, in Washington, DC.