| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us Genealogy Home | Second Generation8. Fernald Everett "Porky" Carter8 was born on 6 July 1932 in Swan's Island, Hancock County, Maine, USA. He died on 27 January 2004 in Waldoboro, Lincoln County, Maine, USA.9 Fernald 'Porky' Everett Carter Help slow in coming WALDOBORO — Fern Carter needs a new home. He needs it bad, and he needed it yesterday. For now, he sleeps in a hospital bed in his makeshift kitchen/living room. He is disabled, living on a fixed income and down on his luck. Local residents are determined to see that change. Russell Anderson, a local advocate for low-income residents, is spearheading an effort to raise $15,000 to move Carter, who turns 70 on Saturday, out of his dilapidated house and into a recently donated double-wide mobile home. As it stands, Anderson has raised a few hundred dollars. He needs the rest to pay for a concrete foundation for Carter's mobile home, as well as moving and startup costs such as sewerage and water. He's optimistic that the Waldoboro community, although not the richest in terms of income, will step up and help one of its own. Local organizers have already started planning a bingo game this month to benefit Carter, and Anderson said locals are giving everything they can to help out. "A lot of the people here are low-income themselves," Anderson said. "But they've come together. The people here may be poor, but they have a very sustaining community." A community where, for almost 40 years, Carter worked as a clam digger, a boat builder and a fisherman. Then, in the early 1990s, he had a heart attack. His health began to fail and, according to Carter, "everything went to heck." He developed emphysema, along with a bad hip and back, which prevented him from going up and down the stairs at his house. His lack of mobility caused the house to fall into disrepair. Nine years after his heart attack, Carter's home on Gross Neck Road is falling apart. The floors are slanted. Rain leaks through a tarp that patches up a hole in Carter's roof. Wiring hangs out of a fuse box with no protective pane. The house is not insulated. "This window here is leaking," Carter said. "The roof is all rotten. I never thought I'd be in this predicament." The house is so far below state code that when Carter applied for a Maine State Housing grant from the Coastal Community Action Program in Rockland, he was turned down. The agency told him that it would take too much money simply to bring the house up to code, much less make it livable. In fact, Carter's home is in such poor condition that when a volunteer carpenter was sent to fix the roof two months ago, he called his supervisor and told her that it was "beyond repair." Janice Mellyn, program coordinator at the Community Housing Improvement Program in New Harbor, the person who sent the carpenter, said that "within moments" of the incident, someone donated a mobile home to the organization. Mellyn thought it perfect for Carter. She and other volunteers started calling businesses for help getting it set up at its new destination next to Carter's failing house. Although Waldoboro residents have been willing to help, organizers said they haven't encountered the same attitude from local businesses. "We've asked people about getting the trailer moved," Anderson said. "They sounded offended." Edith Carver, a local Salvation Army employee, is frustrated that so many businesses have refused to help. "What we've run into is it's the busy season and most companies don't want to take the time," Carver said. Staff Writer Elbert Aull can be contacted at 282-8226 or at: eaull@pressherald.com Fernald Everett "Porky" Carter and Carolyn E. Sanborn were married on 24 May 1951. Carolyn E. Sanborn was born (date unknown). Fernald Everett "Porky" Carter-4540 and Carolyn E. Sanborn-49418 had the following children:
Fernald Everett "Porky" Carter and Joyce Worley were married about 1986. Joyce Worley was born (date unknown). |