BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TO BE INGNORANT, BRETHREN, CONCERNING THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP, THAT YE SORROW NOT EVEN OTHERS WHICH HAVE NO HOPE. FOR IF WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED AND ROSE AGAIN, EVEN SO THEM ALSO WHICH SLEEP IN JES WILL GOD BRING WITH HIM. FOR THIS WE SAY UNTO YOU BY THE WORD OF THE LORD, THAT WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN UN THE COMING OF THE LORD SHALL NOT PREVENT THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP. FOR THE LORD HIMSELD SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAV WITH A SHOUT WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL, AND WITH THE TRUMP OF GOD: AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIR! THEN WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS, TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR AND SO SHALL WE EVER BE WITH THE LORD. WHEREFORE COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WITH THESE WORDS.

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ON MARCH 31, 1948, THE WORLD REJOICED AT THE BIRTH OF A HANDSOME YET PRECOUSIUOS BABYBOY GERALD LYNN CARTER. BORN TO VAN BEAUREGARD AND GRACIE ALLEN CARTER OF DEQUINCY, LA. IN 19! GERALD ACCEPTED CHRIST AND WAS BAPTIZED BY REV. FRANK R. WINDER HERE AT GREATER MT. ZION BAPTI CHURCH. HE ATTENDED SCHOOL IN DEQUINCY AND GRADUATE FROM GRAND AVENUE HIGH IN 1967. UPc GRADUATION GERALD ATTENDED MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY BEFORE ENLISTING INTO THE UNITED STAT ARMY. WHILE SERVING HIS COUNTRY IN THE VIETNAM WAR, GERALD RECEIVED THE NATIONAL DEFENSE SERVI MEDAL, VIETNAM CAMPAIGN MEDAL, VIETNAM SERVICE MEDAL, THE BRONZE STAR MEDAL, VIETNAM CROSS GALLANTRY /VV PALM AND THE COMBAT INFANTRYMAN BADGE. UPON HONORABLE DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES ARMY, GERALD RESUMED HIS STUDIES AT MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY. GERALD WAS EMPLOY WITH STROGGINS, EXXON, CAMERON IRON AND TEMPLE INLAND. GERARLD LYNN CARTER JOINED IN HOLY MATRIMONY WITH BARBARA ANN TOLIVER ON APRIL 5, 1969, TO THIS UNION FOUR DAUGHTERS WERE BORN ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012 AT 4:16 AM, GOD SENT HIS ANGELS TO RETRIEVE HIS EARTHLY POSSESSION. I HAD GIVEN HIM COMPLETE HEALING FROM ALL OF HIS SUFFEREING. HIS DEPARTURE WAS PEACEFUL AND I JOURNEY A SUCCESS. PRECEDING GERALD IN DEATH WERE HIS PARENTS, VAN BEAUREGARD AND GRACIE ALL CARTER AND WESLEY GRIFFIN, ONE SISTER, MYRTLE ELAINE SCOTT, ONE BROTHER, GEORGE LEONARD CARTER,

GERALD'S MEMORY WILL FOREVER BE IN THE HEARTS OF HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS. HE LEAVES TO CHERISH I WONDERFUL MEMOERY HIS WIFE BARBARA TOLIVER CARTER; FIVE DAUGHERS, CATRINA(TRENNIS) FORD DEQUINCY LA; NATASH1A(FLOYD) BENOIT, OF PORT ALLEN, LA; GRACIE(PHILLIP) FONTENOT OF SAN ANTON TX; CARRIE(KENNETH) TAYLOR OF DEQUINCY, LA AND JESSICA LYNN CARTER OF HOUSTON, Tx., ONE SC DARRELL HILL OF HOUSTON, Tx. STEP—MOTHER, LAURA CARTER , IRWINVILLE, LA, MOTHER—IN—LAW, ELVINA TOLIVER, DEQUINCY, LA; THREE BROTHERS, CALVIN(NEDRA] CARTER, DEQUINCY, LA, JOHN EDWARD CART:ER, LAKE CHARLES, LA AND JESSIE WEBB, HOUSTON, Tx.            FIVE SISTER—IN—LAWS, CARRIE LEE BAK DOROTHY(LARRY) GENTRY BOTH OF DEQUINCY, LA, JOYCE CARTER, MORGAN CITY, LA, DORIS(DAVID) BOW% FERNANDINA BEACH, FL, AND MARY JONES OF BEAUMONT, TX. ONE BROTHER—N—LAW, WILLIE ERVIN(LINL TOLIVER, ATLANTA, GA. NINE GRANDCHILDREN: SHANICA, TCHYRA, JOSHUA, TIERA, ZACKARI LAKITRA, JOAN SHELIA AND DARRELL, JR., ONE HONORARY GRANDSON, TAIJE CEASAR. THIRTEEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, FO GOD CHILDREN, WILLARD DWAYNE GRANT, RAYMOND FRANK, DANEL TOLIVER AND NAKIA VASHAWN AND A H( OF NIECES, NEPHEWS, RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.

VISITATION WILL BE JANUARY 27, 2012, AT 5:00 P.M., AND FUNERAL SERVICE AT 7:00 P.M., AT GREATER MT. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, DEQUINCY, LA., REV. MARVIN DURGAN OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL FOLLOW IN COMMUNITY CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF KING'S FUNERAL HOME.