Katharine Adele Cockey Carter

Chestertown, MD: Katharine Adele Cockey Carter of Chestertown, MD, died Friday, October 27, 2006 at Chester River Hospital Center. She was 90 years old. Mrs. Carter was born on January 20, 1916 to the late Edward Peter Cockey and Lillian Mackey Tolson of Stevensville, MD. She grew up on Kent Island on the Thompson Creek Farm which is now the Kent Manor Inn. In 1932, she was a member of the first class to graduate from the original Stevensville High School building. Mrs. Carter studied Liberal Arts for two years at Blue Ridge College in Western Maryland. She worked for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in Washington D.C., as a secretary from 1934 to 1945. In 1942, she met James B. Carter in March on the Matapeake-Annapolis Ferry and they were wed on July 11. He was stationed overseas in the U.S. Army during World War II until 1945 when they moved to Detroit, Michigan. They suffered the loss of stillborn twin boys before their two surviving children were born. In 1956 the family moved to Wayne, PA, then to Kent Island in 1959 where they lived on Broad Creek. During her time there, Mrs. Carter worked as a secretary and later as a teachers’ aide at Stevensville High School and Stevensville Middle School. In 1968 they moved back to Wayne, PA, then to Weems, VA in 1981. Mrs. Carter longed to return to her Eastern Shore roots which resulted in their move in 1983 to Governor Grason Manor in Queenstown until 2000, when they moved to Heron Point in Chestertown. Mrs. Carter was an avid reader, loved to travel and her grandchildren were her pride and joy. She was a lifelong member of Christ Episcopal Church in Stevensville, Maryland. She is survived by her loving husband of 64 years, James Butler Carter; a son, James Butler Carter, Jr. and his wife Marie Webb Carter of Fairfax, VA; a daughter, Katharine Carter Goodling of Virginia Beach; four granddaughters, Katharine Marie Carter of Fairfax, VA, Rebekah Miriam Carter of San Diego, CA, Ashley Elizabeth Carter of Fairfax, VA, Rachel Lillian Carter of Fairfax, VA, and a grandson, James Aaron Carter of Fairfax, VA. She was preceded in death by her sister, Edna Emmalyn Mommer of Windamere, FL. A visitation will take place on Wednesday, November 1, 2006 from 6-8 pm at Fellows, Helfenbein and Newnam Funeral Home, P. A., Chester, MD. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 11 am at the Living Water Lutheran Church, 121 E. Main St, Stevensville, MD 21666.Interment will be in Chesterfield Cmetery in Centreville, MD. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the Stevensville High School Alumni Association Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 943, Stevensville, MD 21666.