Nola Mae Drawdy Carter, 83, of Blackshear, passed away Sunday evening, August 9, 2026, at Kindred Hospital North Florida in Green Cove Springs, Florida, following an extended illness.
Born April 29, 1943, in Blackshear, she was a daughter of the late Burris Daniel Drawdy and Nola Lee Drawdy Lee. Living most of her life in Pierce County, she was a 1961 graduate of Blackshear High School. She had obtained a computer tech degree from Ware Tech and was a long-time bookkeeper. She had worked for Alvin Ward CPA in Blackshear, as a self-employed home-based bookkeeper for area businesses and as a bookkeeper for Ware and Pierce County Commissions and the City of Blackshear.
She was a member of Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church, joining in 1970, and helped her husband for many years as the overseers of the church cemetery.
She was a faithful volunteer for Hospice Satilla in Waycross.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a son, Mark Anthony Carter; step-father, Earl Lee; a sister, Virginia Robinson and three brothers, Joe Allen Drawdy, Edward Drawdy and Ronald Austin Drawdy.
Survivors include her husband of 64 years, Roger Carter, Blackshear; two sons, “Warren” Roger Carter Jr., Clayton and Matthew “Matt” Mannen Carter (wife Lisa), Blackshear; four grandchildren, Brandon Tyler Carter (wife Elizabeth), Bastrop, TX, Manuel Sotomayor (wife Lorrany), Seoul, Korea, Benjamin Isaac Carter, Clayton and Meagan Hullander (husband Seth), Cartersville; two great-grandchildren, Isabelle Carter and Wyatt Carter; four sisters, Joann Lee (husband Jimmy), Hoboken, Ellie Loudermilk, Perry, Glenda Lee (husband Larry), Blackshear and Linda Hayden (husband Lee), Griffin; two brothers, Elder Daniel Drawdy (wife Gloria) and Joseph “Joe” Drawdy (wife Karen), both of Blackshear; step-sisters, Martha Hall (husband James) and Lydia Wainright, both of Nahunta; two step-brothers, John Lee Jr. and Travis Lee, both of Waynesville; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Francine Bennett, Millwood, Myra Tucker, Savannah, Wanda Davis (husband Ken), Hoboken, Lawanna Cook (husband Eddie), Brunswick, and DeLoyce “Opal” Underwood (husband Russ), Brunswick and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12, from the Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church.
Interment will follow in the church cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations are requested to be sent to Hospice Satilla, 808 Evergreen Way, Waycross, Georgia 31501.
Sympathy may be expressed by signing online at www.hartfh.com.
Hart Funeral Home of Blackshear is in charge of arrangements.
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