{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/todays-top-stories\/x1248734977\/G-Robert-Carter-passes\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/php\/include\/govt\/robert.carter.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAccording to<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/todays-top-stories\/x1248734977\/G-Robert-Carter-passes\"><br \/>\nthe VDT today<\/a> [12 Feb 2011]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAt approximately 11 a.m. Saturday morning, emergency personnel responded<br \/>\nto the residence of G. Robert Carter, former Lowndes County Commissioner<br \/>\nand Sheriff. Carter, who was recently hospitalized for an unnkown illness,<br \/>\nhas reportedly passed today.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zqkMvHDvNmI\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/zqkMvHDvNmI\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nTwo weeks ago<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zqkMvHDvNmI\"><br \/>\nhe spoke as he was being honored<\/a><br \/>\nat the Lake Park Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner:<\/p>\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><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nG. Robert Carter, former Lowndes County Commissioner District 3,<br \/>\nformer Sheriff,<br \/>\nspeaking at the<br \/>\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.<br \/>\n<\/small><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI&#8217;ve lived long enough to appreciate the Greatest Generation,<br \/>\nbut also to appreciate the younger ones coming along to take our place.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not totally out of business; I might be able to help you somewhere<br \/>\ndown the line.<br \/>\nAs I told Crawford, don&#8217;t wait until you get in trouble.<br \/>\nCome to see me before you get in trouble.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/02\/g-robert-carter-honored-at-lake-park-chamber-of-commerce.html\"><br \/>\nvideos of all the tributes to Sheriff Carter that evening.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\nCommissioner Carter did not attend<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/ribbon-cutting-quarterman-road.html\"><br \/>\nthe ribbon cutting for the paving of Quarterman Road<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/ribbon-cutting-quarterman-road.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2628\/3906937993_474ccde6f4_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nbut he at least as much as anyone else was responsible for the<br \/>\nremaining canopy you can see in the background.<br \/>\nWhen the rest of the commission and staff were not interested in talking,<br \/>\nhe talked to us at length and got others in the county government involved.<br \/>\nWe did wait until the trouble started, but he did help get us out of it.<\/p>\n<p>\nG. Robert Carter will be missed.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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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