Austin Senior Golf Association
Col. Carver was born to Ercey and Frances Carver on August 29, 1920, in Ft. Scott, Kansas. As a boy living in the Depression, he worked to help feed his brothers and sisters - as a pin-setter at the bowling alley, and as a caddy at the local country club, where he was chosen to serve as caddy for the great Walter Hagen when he played an exhibition round there one afternoon. He served in the Third Army in WWII and arrived on Normandy beach only a few days after the initial landing, while the Germans were still shelling the area.
Col Carver received his degree in mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University after the war then rejoined the Army Air Corp, which became the United States Air Force. He married Shirley Essington on November 16, 1958 and the family moved wherever the military took him, from Ohio to Massachusetts to Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, where he retired in 1970. The Carvers then moved to Austin, where he began an eleven-year career teaching junior high social studies at Pearce Junior High. After that, he enjoyed his well-earned retirement, spending his days competing in (and often winning!) Austin Senior Golf Association events, attending various theatrical and musical performances in which his children participated, playing a little poker, and traveling.
According to L. E. Clarke, Col. Carver was a member in 1990 when L. E. joined and played regularly until October, 2002. The Austin Senior Golf Association extends condolences to the family and friends of Col. Carver.
Services will be held at Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home on Monday, March 31 at 10:30 a.m., with interment to follow at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery at 2:15 p.m. Please, no flowers. Instead, the family asks that you make a donation to the National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70130, Attn: C. Hall. Obituary and guestbook online at http://wcfish.com.