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Services for Zelia Norwood Carter, of Brookhaven, are 2 p.m.Saturday, March 7, at Ebenezer AME Church in Brookhaven with burialin the church cemetery.

Visitation is Friday from 1 until 6 p.m. at WilliamsMortuary.

Mrs. Carter, 90, died Feb. 28, 2009, at Haven Hall Health CareCenter in Brookhaven. She was born on Nov. 4, 1918, to ClaytonNorwood and Erma Williams Norwood.

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She was retired. She was a member of Ebenezer AME Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her first husband,Print Sims; her second husband, Leroy Carter; and her ninebrothers.

Survivors are a brother, Ardeous Norwood, of Claremont, Calif.;and a sister, Lula Smith, of Blackwood, N.J.; and a host of nieces,nephews, other relatives and friends.