Pop Carter

I’m continuing the weekly exercise, intending to keep this up for 52 weeks, as I recount a wee piece of the story of my life. This week’s prompt continues the stories of grandparents. I’m featuring one a month. Vincent O. “Pop” Carter was born in 1910, and died in 1985. He was one of three

Pop Carter

My paternal grandfather, Vincent O. Carter, died on this day in 1985. We called him “Pop.” He was 75 years old.

Vincent Carter

My paternal grandfather, Vincent O. “Pop” Carter, died on this day in 1985, at the age of 75 years. May he rest in peace. In this first photo, we (my mother and my sisters too) are at Pop and Grandma’s new house in De Soto, Mo., so this was 1970 or 1971. The second photo

#TBT: Pop Carter

My grandfather, Vincent O. Carter (who we called “Pop”), died on this day in 1985. He was a kindly man, if a bit flawed, but aren’t we all?