Obit – Mrs. Henrietta Carver
A Godly Christian lady has departed this life to begin her heavenly journey to be reunited with her family members who have gone on before her.
A longtime Riddleton Community resident, Mrs. Henrietta Carver age 91, transitioned at 11:15 p.m. Tuesday evening October 22, 2024 with her children by her bedside at the Alive Hospice Residence in Murfreesboro where she was admitted October 18th suffering from congestive heart failure brought on by kidney failure.
Funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home were conducted on Tuesday afternoon October 29th at 1 p.m. with Pastor Jerry Payne officiating and Pastor Norman Manning delivering the eulogy. Burial followed beside her husband Mike in the Rockvale Cemetery in the Cages Bend Community.
She was born Henrietta Stewart in the Elmwood Community on August 22, 1933 and was one of four children, a daughter and three sons of Rock Springs Community native, William Carroll “Will” Stewart who died at the age of 86 on July 2, 1994 and Elmwood Community native, the former Agnes “Aggie” Lucille King who died at the age of 93 on November 16, 1999.
One of her brothers, Willie Ben Stewart, preceded her in death on May 21, 2010 at the age of 82.
In the Elmwood Community on February 25, 1950, she was united in marriage to Riddleton Community native, Willie Marshall “Mike” Carver, who died October 11, 1996 at the age of 65 following almost forty-seven years of marriage.
Two of her nine children preceded her in death, Brenda Cheryl Carver Carter who died June 12, 2003 at the age of 50 and Jeffery Wayne Carver who died October 7, 2019 at the age of 59.
Mrs. Carver was saved at an early age and was united with the Mt. Pilgrim Baptist Church in the Elmwood Community where she retained her membership until death.
She was a student thru the tenth grade at the former Turner High School in Carthage.
Mrs. Carver was a retired kitchen supervisor for the Smith County Head Start program at the former Cox-Davis School in the Riddleton Community.
Left to mourn her passing and cherish her memory are her five daughters, Beverly Carver Means and husband Aaron of Charlotte, North Carolina Barbara Carver Sales of Hermitage, Becky Carver Cameron and husband Willie of Nashville, Bridget Carver Weir and husband Ray of the Lascassas Community in Rutherford County, Tina Carver Kittrell and husband Kendall of the Riddleton Community; two sons; Jimmie Marshall Carver also of the Riddleton Community, Jerry Keith Carver and wife Nicole of Atlanta, Georgia; two brothers, Tom Stewart of the Elmwood Community and James Henry Stewart of the Hiwassee Community; nineteen grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
