SERVICES SET FOR DOROTHY CARTER.Byline: Daily News Services are scheduled in Lancaster on Wednesday for Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley rancher and philanthropist Dorothy Carter, who died Friday morning. She was 100. Carter was a member of the Antelope Valley Women's Club Women’s clubs first arose in the United States during the post-civil war period. As a result of increased leisure time due to modern household advances, middle class women had more time to engage in intellectual pursuits. since 1935 and a member of the Childrens Hospital Guild in Los Angeles, which she supported with fund-raising efforts. She hosted horse shows at the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. to raise money for the hospital. She was also active in the Antelope Valley American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. Gray Ladies for 30 years and was a charter member of the Antelope Valley Emblem Club 76. Carter raised chickens, turkeys and Arab horses on her 25-acre ranch near Avenue H-8 and Sierra Highway in Lancaster. The ranch was recently donated to the city of Lancaster The City of Lancaster (2002 population: 133,914) is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. Its main town is Lancaster, from which it obtained its city status. Other towns in the district include Morecambe, Heysham, Slyne, and Carnforth. by her family. Her husband, Whitford B. Carter, ran Lancaster Radio Inc., a radio and appliance store, and started the Antelope Valley's first radio station in 1950. He also was the founder of Antelope Valley Bus Inc. He died in 1978. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Mumaw Funeral Home, 44663 N. Date Ave., Lancaster. Services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Lancaster United Methodist Church United Methodist Church, in the United States, religious body formed by the union in 1968 of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church (see Methodism). , 918 W. Avenue J., followed by burial at Lancaster Cemetery. She is survived by her three children, sons Ronald and James Carter and daughter Patsy C. Smith, who all reside in the Antelope Valley. Dorothy Carter had 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) CARTER |
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