CARMEL, IN – Julie M. Carter, age 86, of Carmel, Indiana, passed away on Wednesday, February 15, 2023. A native of Scottsville, Kentucky, AKA Margaret Ann, was the daughter of the late Carline and Erline (Satterfield) Gilliam.

Julie was a 1955 graduate of Christian College (now Columbia College), Columbia, Missouri, and John Robert Powers School, NYC. Through the years, she was a model, dance instructor and Executive Secretary for several non-profit organizations. For 10 years, she served as secretary/office manage in the Office of Missions for the Presbyterian Synod of Indiana. Her passions were history and genealogy which, after 35 years of research, produced several family history books.

Despite her divorce in 1974, Julie and her first husband, the late Rev. David C. Turnbull, Sr., remained lifelong friends. Her husband, Charles Dexter Carter, predeceased her in 2003.

Survivors include her son David C Turnbull, II; granddaughter Lindsay Turnbull; two great-granddaughters Myra and Sydney, all of Indianapolis, Indiana; step-daughter Angela (Carter) Osborne and husband Kevin and family of Bloomington, IN; step-granddaughters Jessica and Jayna and her brother-in-law Bill A. Carter and family of Benton, Illinois.

Funeral services have been entrusted to Pate Funeral Home, 301 S. Main St., Benton, IL.

Graveside services will be held at 1:00 p.m., Monday, February 27, 2023, at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Thompsonville, IL.

Julie will be buried beside her late husband, Charles Carter, in the family plot at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Thompsonville, Illinois.

Online condolences can be given at www.patefh.com.