Dr. Hill Carter Sr.

Dr. Hill Carter Sr., 98, of Hanover County, Va., died on June 29, 2005. Born November 7, 1906, in Ashland, Va., he attended The University of Virginia and graduated from The University of Virginia Medical School, the last living member of the class of 1930. He interned at St. Luke's Hospital and served his residency at Bellevue Hospital, both of N.Y. City. He received a fellowship to study cardiology under Dr. Paul Dudley White in Boston, Mass. He practiced medicine in Washington, D.C. until retirement in 1978 to his farm in Hanover County, Virginia, where he remained active as a farmer and a naturalist. At The University of Virginia, he was a member of the Raven Society, Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, the Dean's List, Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Society and the Tilcus Society. He later became a member of the Rotary Club International. He was a member of the Chevy Chase Club in Washington, D.C., and the Commonwealth Club in Richmond, Va. He was also a member of the Society of the Cincinnati and the Sons of the Revolution. He was an Eagle Scout in Troop #1, Ashland, Virginia. In 2002 he was proud to be honored by the Heart of Virginia Council with the Good Scout Award. In 1935, he married Kate Devereux Stokely of Birmingham, Alabama, and they enjoyed 64 years of marriage before her death in 1999. He is survived by two daughters, Mary Devereux Carter of McLean, Va., and Katherine Carter Nelson and her husband, Neill, of Hanover County, Va., a son, Hill Carter Jr., and his wife, Diana, of Ashland, Va.; nine grandchildren, Joseph Judson Smith IV and his wife, Julia, of Midlothian, Christine Howell Smith of Nantucket, Mass., Mary Susan Nelson of Ashland, Robert Francis Nelson and his wife, Tracy, of Holly Springs, N.C., Neil Gregory Nelson of Vienna, Va., Hill Carter III, and his wife, Tina, of Providence, R.I., Dudley Carter Sullivan and her husband, Michael, of Port Washington, Long Island, N.Y., Lindsay Warren Carter of Annapolis, Md.; and Mary Chandler Pendleton Carter of Nashville, Tenn.; 11 great-grandchildren, Amanda Blair Hairston, Mary Katherine Carter Smith, Joseph Judson Smith V, Elizabeth Devereux Stokely Smith, and Marguerite Crenshaw Smith of Midlothian, Aaron Mark Elliott and Jennifer Kennedy Elliott of Northern Virginia, and Megan Rea Elliott of Ashland, Neill Parker Nelson and Connor Vincent Nelson of Holly Springs, N.C. and Carter Michael Sullivan of Port Washington, Long Island, N.Y.; and a niece, Gloria Merry Walker of Jackson, Miss., and a nephew, Edward Thomas Merry, Jr., of Mobile, Ala. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Hanover Humane Society, P.O. Box 1011, Ashland, Va. 23005, or Heritage and History of Hanover County, a project to preserve and disseminate Hanover County history, P.O. Box 248, Hanover, Va. 23059.