Mary Frances Carter

July 21, 1930 - November 19, 2020

A graveside service for Mary Carter, 90, of Lubbock, Texas will be 2:00 PM on Tuesday, January 5th at Resthaven Memorial Park with Jim Haney officiating. Mary Frances (Fran) Carter was born in Tyler, Texas on July 21,1930 to F.C. and Berta Francis Perry Chambless, now both deceased. Fran was a native of West Texas, having lived in Brownfield, Texas most of her early years, where she graduated from high school in 1947. She later moved to Houston, Texas where she attended the University of Houston for two years and then she worked as a secretary at the then National Bank of Commerce, which later became the Texas Commerece Bank, where she was later promoted to the position of Executive Assistant to the President of that bank. After her marriage to C.B. Carter, in 1965, she retired from work, and they later moved to Lubbock in 1972 where he became the Chairman and President of the Texas Bank of Commerce in Lubbock, and where she became involved in many local Civic Clubs and foundations. She was the President of the Houston A.R.C.S, (Achievement Rewards for Scientists) at the time they moved to Lubbock, and she became the founding president of the Lubbock chapter of A.R.C.S, which over the years has awarded some $2,000,000 to outstanding students at Texas Tech and Lubbock Christian University. She also has served as President of the Lubbock Women's Club, President of the Women's Division of the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Methodist Hospital Board of Directors, a member of the Executive Committee of the Women's Division of the West Texas Museum Association, a member of the Lubbock Symphony Guild and member of the Ladies Golf Association at the Lubbock Country Club. She as also heald a broker's license from the Texas Association of Realtors and had been a member of the Lubbock Board of Realators. She was named Altrusa Club's Woman of the Year in 1982. She has been a member of St. Paul's on the Plains Eppiscopal Church since moving to Lubbock, where she has served on the church vestry for 4 years, served as Senior Warden, and President of the Episcopal Church Women. She is survived by numerous nieces and nephews. She has request that in lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Paul's E;iscopal Church, 1510 Ave. X, Lubbock; or to the Lubbock Chapter of A.R.C.S. P.O. Box 94206, Lubbock, TX 79423.