Dad#2
This is so hard for me to write!! How does one sum up all the things that was or is our life?? When I was a lot younger I met you through your oldest daughter Sharla. Sharla and I both made majorettes for the Elm Grove Demons and Momma#2 was sewing our majorette uniforms. I came over to be fitted and you had come home from the fire department where you were a fireman .  It was time for supper and you called/growled all of your girls for supper ! It was so loud and so deep that I almost wet pants!!! You took me in as if I was your 5th daughter!! You fussed at me  when I did something wrong and praised me when I did something right!!! I will never forget those stinking cigars!!! You always were puffing on one! One Halloween Sharla and I decided that we would dress up as hobos.  Sharla stoled 2 of your cigars and we lit them up and puffed on them the whole time we were trick or treating! By the end of the night, Sharla and I both were not feeling too good!! Hahaha!! I told my daddy what we did and all he said was “did it make you sick?” I said yes sir and he said “ I bet you will not do THAT again!!! Oh how right he was!!! 
You were always there for your girls when they needed you! You may have been rough on us at times, but we always knew if we needed you for anything, you would be there! I love you my #2 Dad!!! May you rest in heavenly peace now and forever!!

Last time I saw Mr Larry was at the VFW and he was so sweet to dance with Susan, her friend and myself. I was the last in line and we did a wonderful swing dance 💃. He was mr smooth!! What a dear and charming man❤️

Sharla, Donna, Teena and Melissa that was such a wonderful celebration of your sweet daddies life! I am so glad I had the privilege of knowing him! Y’all were truly blessed having him as your dad and papaw to your kids! Love you Janet 

Donna and family,
Please accept our deepest regrets for your loss.  You and your family are in our thoughts and prayers 🙏.
Sincerely,
Doug and Jackie Guess

Uncle Larry I love you and I will miss you always. My favorite memory is every time you came to Virginia you would laugh and tell me you came to eat up all my groceries but you never got to all of them. I loved it when you took all the homemade goods back home with you. Thanks for the memories. I love you Karen Sue 💖

Uncle Larry, I want you to know that I had so much respect for you for so many reasons. I believe you represented everything a loving parent should be and the sacrifices I know you made will forever be a part of what made your 4 girls the good people they grew up to be.  As I told Melissa, I've known you my whole life, I don't remember a time,  a holiday or any other family gathering in my whole life that you weren't a part of.  You were always exactly where you belonged.  With our family, a family you were always such an important part of.  I think I've known you long enough,since I was a flower girl who didn't exactly do her job at yours and Aunt Charlene's wedding to say confidently, you are such a good man. I've known you long enough and well enough to be able to say without question that you are one of the best men I've ever known and one of the best fathers who ever lived. You will never be forgotten.  And, I want you to know that I forgive you for scaring me to death at one of the family reunions in Lake Bisteneau by giving me the impression you were going to drown me, I will admit my hysteria could have played a role in my misreading the situation.  I believe I was about 7 or 8 years old and I truly don't know which of us was the most rattled..me, for thinking you were going to drown me..or you for having to try to calm a screaming, hysterical kid who didn't know how to swim but screamed louder and started hitting you every time you tried to touch me to take me back to shallow water.  I almost drowned because I screamed and kicked and slapped at you every time you came near me! I remember that you kept telling me to calm down, you weren't going to hurt me. I remember thinking HA! If you aren't going to hurt me why'd you try to drown me by letting me go in the deep end of the lake? So, I guess I owe you an apology for the freak out, too! All I can say is that I guess I had trust issues back then! But you are 💜 and will be missed by many! 💔😭myself included

Larry was a good and true friend and I will miss him.  In recent months we chatted over the phone weekly.  I will miss  him.

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Larry T. Carter

20 janvier 1935 – 5 août 2020

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