George Curry Carter

George Curry Carter of Lawrence, Kansas, passed away January 11th, 2026, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital with his daughter and nieces by his side.

George was a lifelong Kansan, with a few extended stays in San Francisco, Singapore, and Dallas, but always returning to his home state. He was born in Great Bend, Kansas, on November 8th, 1946, to Blanche Curry Carter and Irven Robert Carter. From them, he gained a passion for cooking, fishing, hunting, and economics. He began investing in the stock market in his early teens and would continue to follow the world markets for the rest of his life.

George attended the University of Kansas as a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity and spent the summers working at Camp Curry in the Yosemite Valley. After graduating, he worked in banking in San Francisco and then Singapore. After years traveling around the world for business and earning his MBA from Southern Methodist University, he reconnected with a fellow Jayhawk, Alison Heath. In 1982, the two were wed in her home town of Salina, Kansas, and settled in Dallas, Texas, where George was the Vice President of a bank.

George and Alison welcomed their only child, daughter Elizabeth. The family moved to the Kansas City area where George started a new chapter of his life in the concrete industry. After a decade of running a company in Kansas City, he started his own Precast Concrete business in Lawrence, Kansas, making enormous concrete structures used in the Legend’s complex and under miles of highway for drainage.

Once he sold the company, George did not "retire" but spent his time “managing his investments.” One computer screen in his office was always filled with flashing numbers and graphs from stock markets around the world.

While George was passionate about the stock market, he was also invested in outdoor pursuits. His summers were highlighted by family trips to Upper Michigan, where he would boat and fish, always with a trusty dog by his side. George was happiest steering a boat around the chain of lakes with either his daughter or dog in the bough playing hood ornament.

George cared a lot for those he loved. Not only for his family and neighbors, but for the thoughtful butcher at Dillons, the patient Wheatfields workers, or the kind waiter at India Palace. If one was lucky enough to be loved by George, they were in an elite club of the best humanity had to offer. George was a great man, a wonderful father, and he will be missed tremendously.

George was preceded in death by his parents and his wife, Alison Heath Carter.

He is survived by his daughter Elizabeth Carter, nieces Sarah (Chuck) Blake and Laura A. Hederstedt, and many cousins, great-nieces, and great-nephews.

As George requested, there will be a private family graveside service in Great Bend and no public memorial service.