Sewell, Julia Patterson

1917 - 2012  (94 years)

• Name	Sewell, Julia Patterson
  Born	31 Aug 1917	Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	4 Jun 2012	Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana, USA
  Buried	Cremated
  Person ID	I7484	Coursey-Sansing Tree
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Sewell, Rev. Frank Anderson,   b. 12 Mar 1855, Florida, USA ,   d. 29 Jan 1955, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA  (Age 99 years)
  Mother	Patterson, Julia Marsh,   b. 27 Jul 1884, Georgia, USA ,   d. 11 Aug 1926, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA  (Age 42 years)
  Married	29 Apr 1908
  Family ID	F3106	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Carter, Ledford C,   b. 6 Aug 1916, Meigs, Thomas County, Georgia, USA ,   d. 6 Jun 2012, Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana, USA  (Age 95 years)
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020
  Family ID	F3108	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Obituary   It was perfect ending to a wonderful story. Having spent the last 72 years as partners in discovery, and having travelled the globe exploring the mystery of life, Julia and Ledford Carter have embarked upon another journey. Julia left the shores of this life on June 4, 2012, and Ledford followed on June 6, 2012. Julia “Duba” Patterson (Sewell) Carter was born in Atlanta, Georgia, August 31, 1917, the daughter of Frank Anderson and Julia Marsh (Patterson) Sewell. As a child learning to speak, she was unable to pronounce “Julia,” so she called herself, “Duba,” the name by which she was thereafter known to family and friends. Julia was 8 years old when her mother died, and she, along with her older sister and father, joined an extended family in nearby Decatur, Georgia. Four years later, her father remarried and moved his family back to Atlanta where Julia’s younger sister and brother were born. Julia graduated from Girls High School in Atlanta and Agnes Scott College in Decatur. Her hobbies were book collecting, for which she won a college prize, and acting with the Atlanta Theatre Guild. She enjoyed trips to New York to see plays. She was an avid reader and an accomplished costume designer, for which she was a finalist in Vogue’s contest for a year’s study in Paris. After college she was employed by J.P. Allen, Atlanta’s prestigious dress shop, an experience that prepared her for teaching in the Federal Distributive Education Program of Lanier High School in Montgomery, Alabama. While in Montgomery, she became engaged to Ledford Carter whom she had dated before his voluntary enlistment in the U.S. Army. Ledford Carter was born August 6, 1916, in Meigs, Georgia, the son of Otto and Ola Belle (Duren) Carter. Following his marriage to “Duba” in June of 1940, the newlyweds relocated to Lawton, Oklahoma where Ledford received his commission as an Army officer. After short tours of duty in Macon, Georgia; Wichita Falls, Texas; and Lawton, Oklahoma, Lt. Carter was ordered to the Pacific Theater. While separated by the war, “Duba” lived with her parents in Atlanta, where their son Robert was born just two weeks before his father returned in January 1946 upon separation from military service. The Carter family lived in Athens, Georgia from 1947 to 1951 where Ledford worked for the Southern Educational Film Production Service. They then moved to Bloomington, Indiana where Ledford joined the staff of Indiana University. He taught courses in educational motion picture production and writing for educational media at Indiana University from 1954 until his retirement as Professor of Education Emeritus in 1981. Concurrently, as a production supervisor in the Audio-Visual Center, he was responsible for the production of approximately 70 short documentary and educational films that have been seen by more than 1 million people. Ledford retired from the U.S. Army in 1976 with the rank of lieutenant colonel, having served 35 years in active and reserve duty. He served as president of the University Club, the Theatre Circle, The Unitarian Universalist Church, and the Residents’ Council of the Meadowood Retirement Community. He also served terms on the board of directors of the Monroe County Historical Society, the Bloomington chapter of the National Society of Arts and letters, the Unitarian Universalist Church, the Meadowood Retirement Community and the Meadowood Memorial Fund. He was a member of Phi Delta Kappa, national honorary fraternity in education; Alpha Psi Omega, national honorary dramatics fraternity; and Pi Kappa Phi social fraternity. He was preceded in death briefly by his wife Julia “Duba” Carter; a son, Robert L. Carter; a sister, Anarah (Carter) Shilkaitis; and brother, Wendall Carter. Bloomington (IN) Herald-Times, June 17, 2012