Career
Carter, the oldest of nine children, was born to Antonia Santos Garrido and Jose Duenas Roberto on 29 August 1929. Under the Japanese occupation of Guam (1941-1944) she and her family survived World World War II, including internment in 1944 in the Manengon concentration camp. Carter was inducted into the Guam Educator’s Hall of Fame though a legislative resolution.
She died at her home in Yona, Guam, at the age of 80.
