Alice Erlene Sanders Carter passed January 14, 2023, at The Blossoms in Mountain View. She was 90. She was born October 31, 1932, to Raymond and Mary Sanders in Stone County, Arkansas, in the same house which was born her brothers and her mother, and which her grandfather had built.
Around 1940 the family left Stone County following work opportunities and eventually settled in Washington State where Erlene graduated from high school. She then attended the Elim Bible Institute in New York. After moving to San Diego, California, she met and married Vezy ”Pete” Carter. They moved back to Stone County in 1974.
Erlene was an active member of the Arkansas Craft Guild and the Ozark Folk Center, conducting demonstrations and teaching people to make corn shuck dolls and oak/reed woven baskets. She also enjoyed being a part of the Stone County Stompers. She served 18 years on the Mountain View City Council and was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Mountain View.
She is survived by her brother, Harold Sanders of Sunnyvale, California, and step-children and step-grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and her brother John Sanders.
A memorial service will be at 10 AM Friday, January 20, 2023, at Flatwoods Cemetery in Mountain View, Arkansas.
