THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, May 20, 1996 TAG: 9605200026
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William Arnold Carter, a retired major general in the Army Corps of Engineers and a former governor of the Panama Canal Zone, died Saturday, May 18, 1996, following a short illness, in Fairfax.
He was the father of Jane Carter Webb of Newport News and the grandfather of Lewis W. Webb III of Virginia Beach, Randolph Webb of Portsmouth, Charlotte Webb of Newport News and Blacksburg, Wade L.R. Webb of Norfolk; and the great-grandfather of Latane Grace Webb.
He was 88 years old.
The funeral will be held at the old Fort Meyer Chapel with interment following in Arlington National Cemetery.
Born in Texas and reared in Mississippi, Carter graduated from West Point in 1930 and went to the University of California at Berkeley for graduate work. Carter fought in World War II from October of 1942 until the war's end. Among his other duties, he served as General Omar Bradley's chief engineer during the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns and then for the invasion of the Normandy Coast. His peacetime duties included a tour as president of the Mississippi River Commission, where he was promoted to Major General.
In 1960, Carter was appointed Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, where he brought an end to the anti-American riots and ended segregation within the Zone. When he retired from the Army, he went to the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington as its principal engineer, becoming director of its Division of Infrastructure and Industrial Projects. In 1972, General Carter left the bank and went to Brazil, where he was project manager of the planning of the 12 million kilowatt hydropower project, Itaipu. Following retirement, Carter returned to the Washington area.
In addition to his daughter Jane, her husband George R. Webb and their children and grandchild, Carter is survived by his daughter, Linda Carter Bell of Falls Church, her two children and five grandchildren, by his wife, Sara, her three children, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The family has asked that in place of flowers, donations be sent to the Christopher Newport Sailing Foundation in Newport News.
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