{"id":2407,"date":"2011-02-12T15:56:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T20:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/g-robert-carter-1925-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-02-12T15:56:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T20:56:20","slug":"g-robert-carter-1925-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/g-robert-carter-1925-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"G. Robert Carter (1924-2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/todays-top-stories\/x1248734977\/G-Robert-Carter-passes\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/php\/include\/govt\/robert.carter.jpg\"><\/a>\nUpdate 13 Feb 2011: A very nice biography and tribute <a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/local\/x1397430702\/Former-commissioner-sheriff-G-Robert-Carter-dies\">in the VDT today.<\/a> His birth year is corrected in the title of this post.\n<br>\nAccording to\n<a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/todays-top-stories\/x1248734977\/G-Robert-Carter-passes\">\nthe VDT today<\/a> [12 Feb 2011]:\n<blockquote>\nAt approximately 11 a.m. Saturday morning, emergency personnel responded\nto the residence of G. Robert Carter, former Lowndes County Commissioner\nand Sheriff. Carter, who was recently hospitalized for an unnkown illness,\nhas reportedly passed today.\n<\/blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zqkMvHDvNmI\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/zqkMvHDvNmI\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nTwo weeks ago\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zqkMvHDvNmI\">\nhe spoke as he was being honored<\/a>\nat the Lake Park Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner:\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zqkMvHDvNmI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<center>\n<small>\nG. Robert Carter, former Lowndes County Commissioner District 3,\nformer Sheriff,<br>\nspeaking at the\nLake Park Chamber of Commerce annual dinner,<br>\nLake Park, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 January 2011.<br>\nVideo by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.\n<\/small>\n<\/center>\n<blockquote>\nI&#8217;ve lived long enough to appreciate the Greatest Generation,\nbut also to appreciate the younger ones coming along to take our place.\n<p>\n&#8230;\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not totally out of business; I might be able to help you somewhere\ndown the line.\nAs I told Crawford, don&#8217;t wait until you get in trouble.\nCome to see me before you get in trouble.\n<\/blockquote>\nHere are <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/02\/g-robert-carter-honored-at-lake-park-chamber-of-commerce.html\">\nvideos of all the tributes to Sheriff Carter that evening.<\/a>\n\n<!--more-->\n<p>\nCommissioner Carter did not attend\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/ribbon-cutting-quarterman-road.html\">\nthe ribbon cutting for the paving of Quarterman Road<\/a>,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/ribbon-cutting-quarterman-road.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2628\/3906937993_474ccde6f4_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nbut he at least as much as anyone else was responsible for the\nremaining canopy you can see in the background.\nWhen the rest of the commission and staff were not interested in talking,\nhe talked to us at length and got others in the county government involved.\nWe did wait until the trouble started, but he did help get us out of it.\n<p>\nG. Robert Carter will be missed.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update 13 Feb 2011: A very nice biography and tribute in the VDT today. His birth year is corrected in the title of this post. According to the VDT today [12 Feb 2011]: At approximately 11 a.m. Saturday morning, emergency personnel responded to the residence of G. Robert Carter, former Lowndes County Commissioner and Sheriff. 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