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Note: !Death Certificate and letter from cemetery verifying the date of burial are located in my album "JOHN CARR, HORVATH,CARL."
!John Edwin Carr, my father, became deaf as an infant. HIs parents did not marry and he was raised as part of his maternal grandparents' family, and always loved his family and relatives. In time he was enrolled at the Indiana State School for the Deaf in Indianapolis, Indiana and learned sign language which he used for the rest of his life, communicated with hearing per sons by writing. When he graduated from the Indiana State School for th e Deaf, he went to Akron, Ohio and worked along with other deaf for Goodyea r Tire and Rubber Corporation. On a visit with his classmate, Mildred Lauber, i n South Bend, Indiana, he met my mother, a native of South Bend who was als o deaf and married her.
!During the first two years of their married life when they lived wit h her parents, my mother became pregnant and my parents had a house built f or them. My father began working for the Empire Box Corporation and worked the re until his retirement.
!Eventually my father remodeled the house and built a two-car garag e on the property. After he retired he built a loom and made rugs which he so ld at the Farmers Market. On Sunday mornings he would walk to the drugstore , fold papers, stock shelves, etc. which gave him an opportunity to visit wi th people in the community and keep busy.
!On the day of his death, my father walked to the drugstore about a m ile away not realizing that the wind chill factor was 50 degrees below zero . He was seen waiting outside the store but no one came. Eventually he wa lked home. Neighbors saw him fall down in the snow and get back up again . When he entered the house, he removed his wraps, walked to the far chair i n the living room, where he sat down and died. My mother at first though t he was sleeping, but then was unable to notify anyone until the next afterno on, when the newsboy came to deliver the paper. The funeral director attribut ed the cause of death to be hypothermia.
!My father was respected by so many people. He was a good man and fa ther and loved to work. I loved him and miss him still.
!My father's Aunt Elsie (Carr) Tyree's will states that she "gave, wi lled, devised and bequesathed an undivided 1/4th of the residue of her esta te unto her nephew John E. Carr, if living, and if not, to his legal heirs per stirpes...That the said John E. Carr pre-deceased Elsie C. Tyree, Dec edent herein, and left surviving him as his sole and only heir at law one a dult daughter, to-wit: Betty J. Carl."
!"That Betty J. Carl's interest would thus be as follows: 1. Bett y J. Carl, daughter and sole heir of John E. Carr, prior deceased brother of Els ie C. Tyree, Decedent herein, 1/2 of 1/2 or 1/4 interest."
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