of Mountain View, AR

October 31, 1932 - January 14, 2023

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 in 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 brother, John Sanders.

A memorial service will be at 10 AM Friday, January 20, 2023 at Flatwoods Cemetery in Mountain View, Arkansas.

Roller-Crouch Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

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