Funeral service for Irmgard Carter will be at 1:00pm Friday, November 10, 2017 at the New Post Chapel, Fort Sill, OK with Chaplain (LTC) Clark Rabe, Fort Leavenworth, KS officiating.

Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Lawton under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

The family will greet friends Thursday evening from 6pm until 7pm at the funeral home.

Irmgard Carter, 88, Lawton was called home to Heaven on Sunday, November 5, 2017 in Lawton.  She was born October 17, 1929 in Mannheim, Kafertal, Germany to Ottomar and Franziska Heissler.  She spent her early adult years working on a farm tending to horses and later working in a bedding factory.  Her leisure time was spent enjoying theatre and the symphony orchestra.  At 24 years old, she met her future husband James Carter and they married on January 7, 1956.  She began her married life as a military wife and lived in California, Alaska, where she received her citizenship in 1963, and Oklahoma; returning to Germany in 1970-1974 for a brief Army tour with her now family of six, two boys and two girls.  They settled afterwards in Lawton for the remainder of her life.  She loved her church and was a member of New Post Chapel for 53 years, a member of the choir for more than 40 years.  She also served as a volunteer in the community and was active in her children's activities as a team mom, den mom and troop leader.  She was a talented seamstress, played the organ in her later years and loved to cook and garden.

Her survivors include her husband James A. Carter, Lawton; two sons, James E. Carter of Charleston, SC, Mario A. Carter and wife Shari Atkinson of Del City, OK; two daughters, Linda L. Carter of Decatur, GA, Amanda Carter of Lawton; two grandchildren, Sarah Spann Dennard and husband Darrius of McDonough, GA and Kendall J. Metoyer of Kennesaw, GA.  She is also survived by her sister Helga Link and husband Helmut of Ontario, Canada.

She was preceded in death by her parents and seven siblings.