Dad's Memorial Service - March 19, 2011 - 11:00 AM Jerome High School Aditorium

The Program for Dad's Memorial Service:

A Service of Celebration

For the Life

of

Carter Van Luther

Jerome High School

Jerome, Idaho

Rev. Carol Thompson, Officiant

Jerome United Methodist Church

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A Service of Remembrance

Celebrating the Life of

Carter Van Luther

Entrance

Prelude                                                               Jane Nellis

The Word of Grace

Greeting

Hymn                           "Morning Has Broken"

Prayer

O God, who gave us birth, you are evermore ready to hear than we are to pray. You know our needs before we ask and the difficulty we have in asking. Give to us now your grace that as we shrink from the mystery of death, we may see the light of eternity. Speak to us once more your comforting message of life and of death. Help us to live as those who are prepared to die. And when our days here are accomplished, enable us to die as those who go forth to live, so that living or dying, our life may be in you, and that nothing in life or in death will be able to separate us from your great love in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.

Proclamation and Response

Old Testament Lesson                        Ecclesiastes 3: 1-13

New testament Lesson                   Gospel  Mark 4:26-29

Reflections of Life

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Sharing of Stories and Memories

     Family                                                     Martin Luther

                  (Family members sharing stories            
            Letter read from grandson Christopher Van Luther
                                                               Gary Luther, son

                                         Marcia Luther, daughter-in-law)

     Friends

          (Freinds sharing stories                  to be added later)

Visual Memories            (A slide show w/music was shown)

Commendation

Prayers

Prayer of Thanksgiving

The Lord's Prayer

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.

Prayer of Committal

Hymn               "For the Beauty of the Earth"

Blessing

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Carter Van Luther was born June 18, 1914, in Gooding, Idaho. He passed away March 3, 2011 in Susanville, California at 96 from complications of old age. He was the fifth child of Charles Augustus and Ora Ellen High Luther. On June 11, 1937, he married Perny Luella King in Tacoma, Washington.

Carter graduated from the University of Idaho at Moscow, Idaho, in 1937. He received his master's degree in agricultural science in 1965. He started his teaching career teaching at the University of Idaho in 1937. Carter is responsible for starting the first classes under the National Youth Administration. He taught vocational agriculture (Vo-Ag) in Buhl, Idaho, for four years before becoming the procurement and quality check man for Pet Milk Company in Buhl. He continued in that position for five years while also farming. He started teaching Vo-Ag in Jerome, Carter started programs in soils, entomology and welding, which are now standard fare for Vo-Ag classes. He also started the first co-operative work education programs in the Jerome School system. For several years , he ran the canning kitchen in Jerome.

In 1986, he received and award for distinguished service from the National Vocational Agriculture Teachers' Association. He was secretary-treasurer of the Idaho Vocational Association and the president of the Idaho Vocational Teacher's Association. Carter was also recipient of the Distinguished Service Award and Honorary State Famer Degree from the Idah FFA Association and Honorary American Farmer Degree from the National FFA Association. In 1997, Carter was awarded a certificate of recognition as founding member, listed in the Founders Registry of the FDR Memorial, Washington, D.C.

He helped his brother farm for three years in Gooding after retiring. He and Luella moved in 2002 to the home on the Luther ranch that was settled in 1903. He loved it there and loved the memories that came flooding back of his childhood. In March of 2010, he and Luella went stay with his daughter, Lorna, and husband, Jay in Susanville, CA. Just days prior to his death, he was visited by his children, Gary, Gerald, and Lorna.

Carter was preceded in death by his son, Vernon Lee Luther. He is survived by his wife, Luella; two sons, Gary(Marcia) and Gerald, both of Jerome; a daughter Lorna (Jay) Buckalew of Susanville, CA; two sisters, Oretta "Pat" Lindell of Twin Falls, Idaho, and Edith Byram of Gooding, Idaho, and a brother, Martin High Luther of Anderson Island, WA. He is survived by seven grandchildren, three step grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, three step great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

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The insert for the program:

(The music for Morning Has Broken)

(Words for the hymn For the Beauty of the Earth)

Miss Me - But Let Me Go!

Edgar A. Guest

When I come to the end of the road

And the sun has set for me

I want no rites in a gloom-filled room.

Why cry for a soul set free?

Miss me a little - but not too long

And not with your head bowed low.

Remember the love that we once shared,

Miss me - but let me go.

For this is a journey that we all must take

And each must go alone.

It's all a part of the Master's plan,

A step on the road to home.

When you are lonely and sick of heart

Go to the friends we know

And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds. 

Miss Me - But Let me Go!

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