Obituaries

Survivors include his wife of 44 years, Louise Cahill Carter of Washington and Palm Beach, Fla.; three children, Warwick M. Carter Jr., of Darien, Conn., Prescott C. Carter of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Lee C. Carter of Washington; five brothers, Newman Carter of McLean, William Carter of Tampa, C. Carroll Carter of Washington, Dr. Robert Lee Carter of McLean and Francis Carter of Alexandria; and four grandchildren.

Robert E. Ankers Jr.Engineer, D.C. Office Manager

Robert Emerson Ankers Jr., 87, an electrical engineer and retired manager of the Washington office of Technology for Communications International, a California-based manufacturer of antenna systems, died Dec. 30 at High Point Regional Hospital in North Carolina. He had pneumonia.

Mr. Ankers was born in Richmond and raised in Falls Church. He was a 1937 graduate of McKinley Technical High School in Washington.

He later was an electrical engineering graduate of North Carolina State University and spent many years as a staff engineer at Deco Electronics in Leesburg.

He served in the Navy on PT boats in the South Pacific during World War II. He moved to High Point from McLean about five years ago.

He was a former board member of Westover Baptist Church in Arlington County, where he once taught Sunday school.

His other memberships included the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Optimist Club of Arlington, the Masons, the Alexandria chapter of the Civil War Round Table and the Model A Ford Club of America.

He also was a trustee emeritus of Fork Union Military Academy in Virginia. His father was a graduate of the school.

Mr. Ankers's wife of 54 years, Betty Lathem Ankers, died in 1998.

Survivors include his wife, Nelda Learnard Ankers of Raleigh, N.C.; a daughter from his first marriage, Elizabeth Tuttle of High Point; a brother, Marvin Ankers of Harrisonburg, Va.; a sister, Margaret Miller of Ashland, Va.; and three grandsons.

Ann Healy RobeyChurch Member

Ann Healy Robey, 88, a native Washingtonian and member Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Kensington, where she was involved in volunteer work, died Dec. 28 at her home in Kensington. She had dementia.

Marguerite Ann Healy was a seventh-generation Washingtonian. She was orphaned by age 9 and was raised in the District by an aunt and uncle.