On the recordOctober 7, 2015
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Mrs. Ercelle S. Carter of Institute, West Virginia, who is celebrating her 100th birthday on October 25, 2015. Ercelle was born on October 25, 1915, in Fayetteville, West Virginia. She is one of two children of John Saunders and Harriet Agee Saunders. Growing up, she attended Levi Elementary, Boyd Junior High School, and graduated from Garnet High School in 1933. She enrolled at West Virginia State College and graduated with degrees in home economics and elementary education in 1937. On April 27, 1940, she married Ulysses Grant Carter. They were married for 53 years, until his death in 1993. Ercelle was a homemaker and a stay-at-home mom until 1959, when she began her professional career as a teacher at Shawnee Elementary School and retired from Mound Elementary in 1979. Ercelle has led an outstanding life, highlighted with her love of family and service to her community. I wish her many more years of health and happiness. Congratulating Evans Elementary of Jackson County, West Virginia
