William L. “Bill” Carter, 85, Atchison, Kansas died unexpectedly Sunday, April 30, 2017 at his residence.

Celebration of Life services will be Friday, May 5, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. in the chapel of Arensberg-Pruett Funeral Home with Rev. Robert Ziegler officiating. Visitation with the family will be for one hour prior to services on Friday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions are suggested to Ducks Unlimited-Atchison Chapter #2, Atchison Library or Atchison Hospital Cardio-Pulmonary Unit and may be left in care of the funeral home. Online condolences may be left at www.arensbergpruett.com.

Bill was born October 6, 1931 in Auburn, New York the son of William Charles and Helen DeVinney Carter. He attended elementary schools in New York, graduating from Union Springs High School, Union Springs, New York. He then attended the University of Missouri in Kansas City, Missouri.

He and Glenda Neitzel were united in marriage on June 26, 1982 in Independence, Missouri.

Bill began his employment in New York as a traffic manager with the agri-milling industry and transferred to Kansas City, Missouri in 1960. He then moved to Atchison, Kansas in 1979 and was employed as a traffic manager for Lincoln Grain Elevator and later with Midwest Grain Products as traffic manager for eleven years until his retirement in 1995. He became an Interstate Commerce Commission practitioner in 1962.

He served with the United States Army from 1951 until his honorable discharge in 1953.

He was a member of the Masonic Order in New York, the Kansas City Traffic and Transportation Club of Kansas City and was an active participant with the Gladstone, Missouri planning commission.

Survivors include his wife, Glenda Carter, of the couple’s home in Atchison, KS; a son, Barry Hume Carter, Excelsior Springs, MO; a daughter, Kate Carter Meek, Fr. Worth, TX; a brother, David Carter, Auburn, NY; two grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Courtney Nicolle Bowman Carter in 1984; two brothers, Charles Carter in 1998 and Douglass Carter in 2015.