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Rhoda Lavada “Vada” Wilcox Carter
- Birth
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Rockingham, Bacon County, Georgia, USA
- Death
- 15 May 1971 (aged 72)
Portsmouth City, Virginia, USA
- Burial
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Chesapeake, Chesapeake City, Virginia, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 36.8022766, Longitude: -76.3921051
- Plot
- Chimes Tower, Sec. 3
- Memorial ID
- 61783704 · View Source
- Maintained by: Tim Oliver
- Originally Created by: Anonymous
- Added: Nov 17, 2010
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- Sponsored by Tim Oliver
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61783704/rhoda_lavada-carter: accessed ), memorial page for Rhoda Lavada “Vada” Wilcox Carter (7 Jan 1899–15 May 1971), Find a Grave Memorial ID 61783704, citing Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, Chesapeake, Chesapeake City, Virginia, USA; Maintained by Tim Oliver (contributor 47625525).
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Lavada and Luther Carter at their Matthews Terrace home at Easter. Photo was taken Easter Sunday 1966. The July 66 date was most likely when the photos were processed.
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Luther and Lavada Carter
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Lavada Wilcox Carter as a young woman in the early 1920s.
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My grandmother in front of her home at 1517 Matthews Terrace in Portsmouth.
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My Grandmother holding me as a baby.
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Luther & Lavada Carter in April 1958
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Luther & Lavada Carter with their grandchildren Susan, Carol and Bob Thomas. Taken Easter 1966 in the backyard at 1517 Matthews Terrace.
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Luther and Lavada Carter and children Earl, Eleanor and Laverne. Taken in Waycross about 1938 about a year before they moved to Virginia. Their oldest son Royce had died suddenly in Hazelhurst, Georgia about two years before.
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Lavada (on right) with her brother Seward Wilcox (center) and her sister Margie Barber (left).
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Lavada holding her newborn daughter Wilma Laverne Carter in front of 418 Ethel Street in 1926.
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Lavada holding newborn daughter Eleanor Carter in 1933.
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Lavada's brother and sister-in-law Seward Wilcox and Nannie Jane Youmans Wilcox. They also moved from Georgia to Virginia in the late 1930s. Lavada was very close to both of them.
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Lavada and Luther Carter with daughters Eleanor, Laverne and grandsons Bob (with bunny) and Jerry. Taken around 1953 at City Park.
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Lavada Carter holding her grandson--Gerald Steven Oliver with her daughter Laverne Carter Oliver. Photo taken about 1953 behind Lavada's house on Washington Street.
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Lavada Carter with her grandson Bob Thomas and granddaughter Carol Thomas around Easter 1966.
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My grandparents house at 1812 Des Moines Avenue. I developed my love of gardening from my grandmother whom I helped in her garden as a young boy. Some of my first memories were of my grandmother at this house. Photo taken around 1964.
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