Carrie Elizabeth Smith

  General Notes:

I sent a letter to Barbara Robinson Sterling on January 21, 2008 hoping that she was the person who left messages on genealogy boards regarding her grand mother, Ester Victoria Keil. It was returned as undeliverable with UFA (Unknown Forwarding Address). Below is an obituary found January 31, 2008 that refers to Wilbur Lee Sterling, Jr. This is who I believe is Barbara Robinson's husband. My recent research indicated that he was as living at the same address as Barbara on Williamsport, Maryland (near Hagerstown). I am including this here because I might be able to contact a sibling of Wilbur Lee Sterling in an effort to make contact with Barbara … granddaughter on Esther Keil.
[Four weeks later and I have made contact with Barbara and she is indeed the grand daughter of Ester V. Keil.]
Obituary for Carrie E. Sterling [http://www.obitcentral.com/obitsearch/obits/md/md-washington80.htm}:
Carrie Elizabeth Sterling, 82, of Ravenwood Nursing Home [Baltimore, Maryland], and formerly of Sterling Road, Williamsport, Md., died Saturday, May 24, 1997, at the nursing home.
Born Aug. 15, 1914, in Chambersburg, Pa., she was the daughter of the late John K. and Elsie Mae Rockwell Smith.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Wilbur Lee Sterling, in 1994.
She was a member of West End Baptist Church, where she served as a Sunday school teacher and a deaconess.
She also was a member of Gideon Auxiliary and a former member of the Williamsport Homemakers Club.
She is survived by four daughters, Elizabeth Mae "Susie" Myers and Carolyn Marie Suman, both of Williamsport, Sheryl Kay Ebersole and Christine Elaine Banzhoff, both of Hagerstown; three sons, W. Lee Sterling Jr., John Norman Sterling and Ralph Edwin Sterling, all of Williamsport; five sisters, Helen Williams and Elsie M. Evans, both of Funkstown, Josephine Stouffer of Arlington, Va., Mary Flurie of Greencastle, Pa., and Alice Kercheval of Hagerstown; two brothers, Paul Smith of Hagerstown and John R. "Jack" Smith of Funkstown; nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Services will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. at Minnich Funeral Home, 415 E. Wilson Blvd., Hagerstown.The Rev. James C. Brinkley will officiate. Burial will be in Greenlawn Memorial Park, Williamsport.
The family will receive friends Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Memorial donations may be made to The American Heart Association, 92 W. Washington St., Hagerstown, Md. 21740; Gideons International, Inc., or the West End Baptist Church, 101 Buena Vista Ave., Hagerstown, Md. 21740.
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Finally!!! (see general and research notes in Ester V. Keil in Legacy) Feb 21, 2008 ... I made a contact with Barbara Sterling after contacting a suspected brother-in-law, Ralph E. Sterling, and talking with his wife, Brenda. Brenda contacted Barbara and Barbara gave me a call on the land line: Lee Sterling 252-638-3512 of New Bern, NC.
We chatted a good while and are looking forward to keeping in contact, sharing stories and pictures.

Carrie married Wilbur Lee Sterling Sr. (Wilbur Lee Sterling Sr. was born on 1 Apr 1912 in Maryland and died on 20 Feb 1994.)