Mr. Daniel Douglas Carter

December 4, 1943 - July 26, 2020

Funeral services for Mr. Daniel D. Carter, 76, of Flatwoods will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at the Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Mary Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Adams Cemetery under the direction of Hawthorn Funeral Home. A viewing will be held 5-8:00 p.m. Tuesday night at the funeral home. Mr. Daniel Douglas Carter was born December 4, 1943 at his family homeplace in Flatwoods. He passed this life July 26, 2020 in Shreveport, LA. Daniel was the fifth of seven children born to the marriage of John Ernest and Birdie Cameron Carter. He was raised in Flatwoods and schooled in Logansport. He married Vera Jeanette Reeves May 21, 1965 and they celebrated 45 years of marriage before she preceded him in death in 2010. Mr. Carter spent his career as a welder, working many years for McDermont and Bierden Industrial before his retirement. He was a member of the Galloway U.M.C., loved the outdoors hunting, fishing and making perch traps. He is also preceded in death by his parents, brothers, James Ernest “Jay” and Charlie Wayne Carter. Mr. Carter is survived by his children, Wendy Carter Boleware and husband Keith of Carthage, Eddie Carter and wife Melissa of Flatwoods; brother, Buddy Carter and wife Mattie Grace of Paxton; sisters. Connie May and husband Bruce of Carthage, Shirley Broadus and husband Richard of Flatwoods, and Mary Virginia “Sissy” Jones of Deadwood; grandchildren, Shelby Danielle Carter, Amber Christine Atkerson; great grandson, Weston Drake Reeves; numerous nieces, nephews, and a host of friends. Serving as pallbearers will be, Clint Reeves, Buddy Lee Powell, Wayne Carter, Timothy Jones, Cody Herring, and Tim Atkerson.