Funeral services for Royden W. Carter, 65, were conducted at the Moulton Methodist Church Saturday morning with the Rev. Hillard C. Vance officiating. Burial was in Athens City Cemetery, McConnell Funeral Home directing.
Mr. Carter, owner of Moulton Ice and Coal Company, died unexpectedly Thursday morning at his home in Moulton of a heart attack.
A native of Athens, Mr. Carter went to Moulton in 1948 to open the first ice manufacturing plant in Lawrence County. He was a graduate of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, where he received a degree in chemical engineering. He was employed at a chemical plant in New Jersey for a number of years after graduation. Prior to going to Moulton, he worked with a chemical plant at Ashford, KY. Mr. Carter was a member of the Moulton Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lucile Carter, Moulton; one daughter, Mrs. C. P. Frost, Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J.; two grandchildren, Margaret Lee and Carlton Frost; and four sisters, Mrs. Edna Carden, Mrs. Blanche Rosenau, Mrs. Mae Houston, all of Athens, and Mrs. Inez Slaughter, Birmingham.
Married Lucile O'Byrne, Sept. 17, 1918, Ensley, AL.
Child:
Ruth Nelcine Carter Frost
Funeral services for Royden W. Carter, 65, were conducted at the Moulton Methodist Church Saturday morning with the Rev. Hillard C. Vance officiating. Burial was in Athens City Cemetery, McConnell Funeral Home directing.
Mr. Carter, owner of Moulton Ice and Coal Company, died unexpectedly Thursday morning at his home in Moulton of a heart attack.
A native of Athens, Mr. Carter went to Moulton in 1948 to open the first ice manufacturing plant in Lawrence County. He was a graduate of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, where he received a degree in chemical engineering. He was employed at a chemical plant in New Jersey for a number of years after graduation. Prior to going to Moulton, he worked with a chemical plant at Ashford, KY. Mr. Carter was a member of the Moulton Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lucile Carter, Moulton; one daughter, Mrs. C. P. Frost, Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J.; two grandchildren, Margaret Lee and Carlton Frost; and four sisters, Mrs. Edna Carden, Mrs. Blanche Rosenau, Mrs. Mae Houston, all of Athens, and Mrs. Inez Slaughter, Birmingham.
Married Lucile O'Byrne, Sept. 17, 1918, Ensley, AL.
Child:
Ruth Nelcine Carter Frost
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