Death
Helen Carter suffered from gastrointestinal problems which led to heart problems that took her life in 1998 at age 70.
Her interment was next to her son, Kenneth, in Hendersonville Memory Gardens in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Buried nearby in the same cemetery are her parents, Ezra and Maybelle Carter, and her sisters, June and Anita.
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