ANITA CARTER HEALY

Anita Carter Healy, age 88, of Saluda passed away peacefully on May 18, 2026 at Riverside Health and Rehabilitation Center in Mathews, Virginia. 

Anita was born on December 7, 1937 in Wise, Virginia. After graduating from J.J. Kelly High School in 1956, she moved to work in Richmond, Virginia. It is there that she met and married Charles Healy, on April 27, 1957. They enjoyed over five decades together from his proposal on their first, blind date until his death in 2012. 

Anita is preceded in death by her parents Claude Richard Carter and Ina Matilda Purkey Carter of Wise, her husband Charles Frederick Healy, brothers Carlos, David, Steven, and sister, Diana Carter Mullins. 

She is survived by daughters Jennifer Edwards (William), Angela Switzer (Tod), and Melanie Healy-Marquis (Lincoln IV), brother Edward Carter, and a much cherished “adopted son” Richard “Bro” Lewter. Five grandchildren will carry on her legacy: Tommy Cleek, Michael Edwards (Claibourne), Kaitlin Sorrentino (John), Sarah Switzer (Logan Romine), and Lincoln Marquis V. Seven great grandchildren will love and miss their “GG”: Tori and Wesley Cleek, Sadie Vance, Rece, and Annie Beau Edwards, and Madison and Harper Sorrentino. 

Over her lifetime, she served thousands of hours of hands on volunteering in every community she ever lived in. Anita’s greatest gift was the profound love she gave all of her family and friends, her husband, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren providing support, nourishment, fairness and faith in God. 

The visitation and funeral took place at Faulkner Funeral Home in Saluda on May 21, 2026 with graveside service following at Forest Chapel United Methodist Church. Gifts can be made in her memory to Forest Chapel United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 425 Saluda, VA 23149.