Blanche Mccarter

Canton-Blanche Sams McCarter, age 82, died Monday, February 2, 2004 at Haywood Regional Medical Center.

She was a native of Buncombe County and had lived most of her life in Haywood County. She was a daughter of the late Joseph and Lena Clark Sams and was preceded in death by her husband, Theodore D. McCarter who died in 2000. She was also preceded in death by 3 sisters and 3 brothers. Mrs. McCarter was of the Baptist faith.

She is survived by two daughters, Shirley Simpson and her husband Jimmy and Mary Burrell and her husband Gary, all of Canton, one son, Arthur McCarter and his wife Ann of Canton, one sister, Eva Clark of Alabama, 9 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, February 5, 2004 at the Canton Chapel of Wells Funeral Homes & Cremation Services. Reverend Bobby Winebarger, Jr. will officiate. Burial will follow at Bon-A-Venture Cemetery on Old Clyde Road. The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

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