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Obituary for BERNICE C. CARTER
Bernice C. Carter born on December 31, 1922 to the late Sewell and Sarah Howe. She departed this life on December 25, 2018. She was the youngest of twelve siblings and was born, raised & attended school in Calvert County, MD. After her schooling, she moved to Washington, D.C. and got a job doing clerical work. She later moved back home and married the late Freeland Carter. The marriage was short lived and she moved to New York and became a strong independent woman. Bernice would work in New York in the winter months and return to Calvert County during the summer to farm tobacco. She knew as much about farming tobacco as the average man. She loved to do her own lawn & gardening. She would raise lots of vegetables and would wind up with 2-3 freezers of you name it, she had it. She kept everything immaculate.
Bernice did it her way. When her sisters came down from Baltimore to visit, they all went back with a cooler full of goodies. She was a hard worker. She worked as a nurse's aid at the old hospital in Prince Frederick for twenty years. She loved reading her bible and was sort of a quiet person but could give you a good laugh every now and then. She was not blessed with children but was fortunate to have nieces & nephews close by to assist her.
Bernice was preceded in death by brothers: Manny, Benjamin, Richard & Grant Howe and sisters: Iona Howe, Elizabeth Cropper, Adele Nash, Callie and Edith Freeland, Helen Howe and Selina Hudgins, a special niece Joan O 'Neal & a special nephew Estep Kyler. She also leaves behind a faithful friend Annie Elliott. She will be missed.
