Shirley Louise

Golden-Carter

Shirley Louise Golden-Carter of Earlysville, VA departed this life on April 18, 2025.  She was born on June 8, 1945 to the late George W. Golden and Marie Brown Golden.  Shirley attended Pleasant Grove and Mt Sinai Baptist Churches.  She joined Mt. Zion Baptist Church at an early age where she was an active member for over sixty years and served for a number of years as Clerk and Trustee.

Shirley grew up in the Rivanna community and graduated from Burley High School and Virginia State College now Virginia State University with a Bachelors and Masters in Education.   She served as a teacher at Broadus Wood Elementary School in Earlysville, Virginia for five years before marrying and moving to Richmond.  Shirley taught in the Richmond Public Schools at Blackwell and George Mason Elementary Schools for the next twenty-nine years before retiring in 2004.

Shirley loved to travel and with her husband George, they went on trips throughout the United States and Canada as well as many air, land and sea and river cruises to countries around the world.

Shirley is survived by her devoted husband, George Harris Carter.  Shirley also leaves to cherish her memory, four siblings, Lucille Golden-Blakey of Tucker, GA, George Roger Golden of San Francisco, CA, Virginia E. Golden, Esq. of Pembroke Pines, FL and Emaline Golden Creamer (Rev. Gregory Creamer, Sr.) of East Elmhurst, NY; one uncle Howard O'Neal Browner; close cousins, Rev. Chauncey Brown (Gale Brown), Deborah Wheeler Hamlette, Elizabeth B. Watts; one uncle-in-law, Wayne Wheeler, and a host of other cousins, family members, and friends.

Shirley will always be remembered for her love for family, church, community and sickle cell disease volunteerism she treasured to the end.

Remains rest at Scott's Funeral Home, 116 East Brookland Park Blvd, Richmond, VA., where viewing will be held Sunday, May 4 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.  Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Monday, May 5, 2025 at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 6045 Advance Mills Road, Ruckersville, VA.  Interment will follow later at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.