[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 4 (Wednesday, January 6, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E16]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





              HONORING TREVER AUBRIA ``T.A.'' CARTER, JR.

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                        HON. H. MORGAN GRIFFITH

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, January 6, 2021

  Mr. GRIFFITH. Madam Speaker, I rise in honor of Trever Aubria 
``T.A.'' Carter, Jr., who passed away on December 27, 2020 at the age 
of 93. T.A. was a veteran, architect, and philanthropist in Virginia's 
Roanoke Valley.
  T.A. was born on December 20, 1927 to Trever Aubria Carter, Sr. and 
Pernell Jackson Carter Smith. He graduated from Jefferson High School. 
After serving in the United States Navy at the end of World War II, he 
earned a degree in architecture from Virginia Tech.
  The properties T.A. helped develop dot the landscape of western 
Virginia. He launched the Double T Corporation with T.D. Steele and 
also worked in partnerships with other businessmen. Among the locations 
T.A. helped develop were Crossroads Mall, the first enclosed shopping 
mall in Virginia, and Tanglewood Mall in Roanoke, University Mall in 
Blacksburg, Hunting Hills Country Club, properties for the Marriott 
hotel chain in Roanoke and Blacksburg, and residential neighborhoods 
including the Stonegate neighborhood and the Stonegate Swim Club. He 
was a hands-on developer who visited his projects every day they were 
under development.
  T.A. contributed to the architecture of western Virginia but he 
contributed in other ways. He advocated for Explore Park in Roanoke and 
Bedford Counties. As a devotee of his alma mater, Virginia Tech, he 
established the T.A. Carter Professorship in the College of 
Architecture, and he supported Roanoke College in Salem as well. T.A. 
also belonged to the Salem Rotary for many years.
  T.A. was known for his kind and charitable nature, taking an interest 
in the people of his community and his profession and supporting their 
endeavors. I was a recipient of his generosity. The Stonegate Swim Club 
which he built and owned had an initiation fee and a membership fee, 
but he let a single-parent schoolteacher in the area pay the fees in 
installments for her children so they could use the facility. As one of 
those children, I enjoyed the opportunity to swim and took it up as a 
lifelong hobby. I am a member of that swim club to this day.
  T.A. is survived by his wife of 71 years, Jeanette Watson Carter; his 
daughter, Treva Jean Carter and fiance Alan; his son, Edward Paul 
Carter and wife Juliette; his granddaughter, Amber Miller Mason; 
grandsons Jeremy Wyatt Carter and wife Kel and Benjamin Gerald Carter 
and wife Melissa, and great-grandchildren Maggie, Carter, Wyatt, and 
Millie. I wish to offer my condolences on the loss of T.A., who did so 
much for the development and support of the Roanoke Valley.

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