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SUBJ: OKLAHOMA BCST 04-2010
1. IT IS WITH GREAT SADNESS THAT I INFORM YOU OF THE PASSING OF 
ISABELLA WILHELMENIA CARTER THE WIFE OF CECIL CARTER NNNOQGC.
2. WITH THE KNOWLEDGE I HAVE I KNOW SHE IS RESTING IN THE ARMS OF
HER HEAVENLY FATHER FREE OF PAIN AND WANT. WE SHOULD ALL
PRAY FOR CECIL AND HIS FAMILY TO BE COMFORTED IN THIS TIME OF SORROW.
3. BELOW IS THE OBIT FROM THE 20th MARCH BARTLESVILLE PAPER
Isabella Wilhelmenia Carter, 84, resident of Bartlesville and former
resident of Wann, Oklahoma, died at 4:55 PM on Friday at her residence.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM on Monday in the Stumpff
Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Bill Wright of Copan United Methodist
Church officiating. Interment will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery
under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home and Crematory.
A memorial has been established and those who wish to make a
contribution in memory of Mrs. Carter may do so to: Alzheimer's
Disease Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Neurology, 4488 Forest Park Ave. Suite 130 St. Louis, Missouri 63108-2293.
Isabella Wilhelmenia Carter was born January 19, 1926 in Ida Grove, Iowa
to Ernst D. and Paula (Grandt) Andresen. She attended grade school in
northeast Oklahoma graduating high school at Wann, Oklahoma in 1945.
Mrs. Carter attended Northeastern State College for two years and 
received her teaching certificate. She taught school at Oakdale School
near Wann, Oklahoma for two years. Mrs. Carter owned and operated Wann
Telephone Exchange from 1949 to 1957 until selling to the Totah Telephone
Company. Mrs. Carter also helped operate the family grocery store Hoffman
Grocery at Wann. She was employed as a Postal Clerk for the Wann post
office from August 1954 until becoming a regular rural route carrier in
May 1969. Mrs. Carter worked in Wann until January 1972 and was transferred
to Bartlesville and retired on October 24, 1984 after thirty years with
the Postal Service. 
She was a volunteer weather observer for the National Weather Service for
35 years. She married Tom Hoffman on November 29, 1947 in Newkirk, Oklahoma
and he preceded her in death on November 23, 1966. Mrs. Carter married
Cecil O. Carter on February 14, 1978 at Warm, Oklahoma. Mrs. Carter was a
member of the Warm Methodist Church for many years and later moved her
membership to the East Cross United Methodist Church.
Survivors include; her husband Cecil O. Carter of the family home in
Bartlesville; one son Joe Hoffman and his wife Donna of Wann, Oklahoma;
two daughters Paula Young and her husband Bernard of Bartlesville and
Christine Hoey and her husband Steve of Edmond, Oklahoma; nine
grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; two nephews and one niece.
Mrs. Carter was preceded in death by her parents; her first husband;
one son John Paul Hoffman (who was killed in action in Viet Nam);
one brother Adolph Andresen and one sister Anna Lorie Andresen.
The following link will take you to an On-Line Guest Book for Isabella.
www.legacy.com/gb2/default.aspx?bookid=10874998116707
Obit with photo
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/examiner-enterprise/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=140923235
4.MARS: TOGETHER WE CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING.
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