Darrell was the forth born child of Frank and Nellie Warner Carter. He was married three times.He married his first wife Edith "Ruth" Lytle in Dundee Michigan on Feb. 15, 1936.They had two daughters Beatrice and Barbara and one son Thomas.
One week before Christmas in 1942. He became a widower at the age of twenty seven with three children to raise. He had a very hard time dealing with the death of his wife.
He married his second wife Ann on March 5, 1945 in Toledo Ohio, they had a son Edward born in Michigan. They divorced later.
He married his third wife Irene Pendelton on May 2, 1952 in Ohio.
Darrell worked at Great Lake Steel in Detroit as a Millwright until he was forced to retire due to a leg injury. A injury that gave pain till the day he died.
He was born in Tunas Missouri, he had lived in Michigan, Florida and California before moving to Phoenix Arizona.
After suffering a stroke in 1977 both his daughters took turns letting him live with them and tending to him in Arizona. He then moved to Kansas to live with his son Thomas and his wife, The family moved to Edmond Oklahoma, a state that Darrell hated and would refuse to travel through, he would go out of his way just to not have to drive in Oklahoma. No one ever new why at the time.
My grandfather had several things medically wrong with him at the time of his death, including having had a stroke, heart disease, lung cancer (he had quit smoking about 30 years before) But what took his life that day was from falling and hitting his head in a nursing home in Edmond Oklahoma. The aide that was helping him out of bed had failed to report that she had dropped him and had just put him back into the bed until after he was found dead later that day.
He was cremated, he had wanted his ashes taken back to Michigan and to be buried with his first wife Ruth. The ashes had been saved by his son Tom, who had finally decided that he was never going to make it back to Michigan, so when my mother Beatrice Nagy died in 1995, my grandfathers ashes were placed in the casket with her and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery in Augusta Kansas on March 4th 1995.
One thing that is kind of sad, is that after I started doing my family history I learned that his mother and grandmother both died in Oklahoma while visiting family, years apart from each other. No wonder he wanted to stay out of Oklahoma!
One week before Christmas in 1942. He became a widower at the age of twenty seven with three children to raise. He had a very hard time dealing with the death of his wife.
He married his second wife Ann on March 5, 1945 in Toledo Ohio, they had a son Edward born in Michigan. They divorced later.
He married his third wife Irene Pendelton on May 2, 1952 in Ohio.
Darrell worked at Great Lake Steel in Detroit as a Millwright until he was forced to retire due to a leg injury. A injury that gave pain till the day he died.
He was born in Tunas Missouri, he had lived in Michigan, Florida and California before moving to Phoenix Arizona.
After suffering a stroke in 1977 both his daughters took turns letting him live with them and tending to him in Arizona. He then moved to Kansas to live with his son Thomas and his wife, The family moved to Edmond Oklahoma, a state that Darrell hated and would refuse to travel through, he would go out of his way just to not have to drive in Oklahoma. No one ever new why at the time.
My grandfather had several things medically wrong with him at the time of his death, including having had a stroke, heart disease, lung cancer (he had quit smoking about 30 years before) But what took his life that day was from falling and hitting his head in a nursing home in Edmond Oklahoma. The aide that was helping him out of bed had failed to report that she had dropped him and had just put him back into the bed until after he was found dead later that day.
He was cremated, he had wanted his ashes taken back to Michigan and to be buried with his first wife Ruth. The ashes had been saved by his son Tom, who had finally decided that he was never going to make it back to Michigan, so when my mother Beatrice Nagy died in 1995, my grandfathers ashes were placed in the casket with her and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery in Augusta Kansas on March 4th 1995.
One thing that is kind of sad, is that after I started doing my family history I learned that his mother and grandmother both died in Oklahoma while visiting family, years apart from each other. No wonder he wanted to stay out of Oklahoma!
Darrell was the forth born child of Frank and Nellie Warner Carter. He was married three times.He married his first wife Edith "Ruth" Lytle in Dundee Michigan on Feb. 15, 1936.They had two daughters Beatrice and Barbara and one son Thomas.
One week before Christmas in 1942. He became a widower at the age of twenty seven with three children to raise. He had a very hard time dealing with the death of his wife.
He married his second wife Ann on March 5, 1945 in Toledo Ohio, they had a son Edward born in Michigan. They divorced later.
He married his third wife Irene Pendelton on May 2, 1952 in Ohio.
Darrell worked at Great Lake Steel in Detroit as a Millwright until he was forced to retire due to a leg injury. A injury that gave pain till the day he died.
He was born in Tunas Missouri, he had lived in Michigan, Florida and California before moving to Phoenix Arizona.
After suffering a stroke in 1977 both his daughters took turns letting him live with them and tending to him in Arizona. He then moved to Kansas to live with his son Thomas and his wife, The family moved to Edmond Oklahoma, a state that Darrell hated and would refuse to travel through, he would go out of his way just to not have to drive in Oklahoma. No one ever new why at the time.
My grandfather had several things medically wrong with him at the time of his death, including having had a stroke, heart disease, lung cancer (he had quit smoking about 30 years before) But what took his life that day was from falling and hitting his head in a nursing home in Edmond Oklahoma. The aide that was helping him out of bed had failed to report that she had dropped him and had just put him back into the bed until after he was found dead later that day.
He was cremated, he had wanted his ashes taken back to Michigan and to be buried with his first wife Ruth. The ashes had been saved by his son Tom, who had finally decided that he was never going to make it back to Michigan, so when my mother Beatrice Nagy died in 1995, my grandfathers ashes were placed in the casket with her and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery in Augusta Kansas on March 4th 1995.
One thing that is kind of sad, is that after I started doing my family history I learned that his mother and grandmother both died in Oklahoma while visiting family, years apart from each other. No wonder he wanted to stay out of Oklahoma!
One week before Christmas in 1942. He became a widower at the age of twenty seven with three children to raise. He had a very hard time dealing with the death of his wife.
He married his second wife Ann on March 5, 1945 in Toledo Ohio, they had a son Edward born in Michigan. They divorced later.
He married his third wife Irene Pendelton on May 2, 1952 in Ohio.
Darrell worked at Great Lake Steel in Detroit as a Millwright until he was forced to retire due to a leg injury. A injury that gave pain till the day he died.
He was born in Tunas Missouri, he had lived in Michigan, Florida and California before moving to Phoenix Arizona.
After suffering a stroke in 1977 both his daughters took turns letting him live with them and tending to him in Arizona. He then moved to Kansas to live with his son Thomas and his wife, The family moved to Edmond Oklahoma, a state that Darrell hated and would refuse to travel through, he would go out of his way just to not have to drive in Oklahoma. No one ever new why at the time.
My grandfather had several things medically wrong with him at the time of his death, including having had a stroke, heart disease, lung cancer (he had quit smoking about 30 years before) But what took his life that day was from falling and hitting his head in a nursing home in Edmond Oklahoma. The aide that was helping him out of bed had failed to report that she had dropped him and had just put him back into the bed until after he was found dead later that day.
He was cremated, he had wanted his ashes taken back to Michigan and to be buried with his first wife Ruth. The ashes had been saved by his son Tom, who had finally decided that he was never going to make it back to Michigan, so when my mother Beatrice Nagy died in 1995, my grandfathers ashes were placed in the casket with her and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery in Augusta Kansas on March 4th 1995.
One thing that is kind of sad, is that after I started doing my family history I learned that his mother and grandmother both died in Oklahoma while visiting family, years apart from each other. No wonder he wanted to stay out of Oklahoma!
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