Mrs. McCarter has won many ribbons for flower arranging and was a Master Flower Show Judge Emeritus. She was a member of the Fifth District Flower Show Judges Council of the National Garden Clubs, Inc., honorary member and past president of the Bayou Desiard Garden Club, and honorary member and past president of the Monroe Garden Club. She was chosen for the Circle of Roses by the Louisiana Garden Club Federation, Inc.

Services for Mrs. Louise Hornsby McCarter of Monroe will be held at 10:00AM Thursday, March 10, 2005, at the First Presbyterian Church in Monroe with Dr. Allison Moody officiating. Interment will follow in Vienna Cemetery in Ruston under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home Sterlington Rd. Monroe. Mrs. McCarter died on March 7, 2005 at North Monroe Medical Center.

Mrs. McCarter was born on Friday, August 13, 1922, in Vienna, Louisiana near Cypress Creek North of Ruston, Louisiana. Her family moved to Ruston so that she could start school. She went from the first grade all the way through college on the Louisiana Tech campus, graduating in Home Economics, and was later on the Louisiana Tech Home Economics Advisory Board. She also attended Louisiana State University of Arkansas where she selected other studies of lifetime interest including art and anthropology. Louise taught school at a number of places in North Louisiana. During World War II she worked in the laboratory for Standard Oil Co. in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where they further developed synthetic rubber needed to win the war.

On June 2, 1946, she married John H. McCarter, Jr. They lived a while in Ruston where her husband taught at Louisiana Tech. They moved to Monroe, Louisiana, in 1951.

She was the first president of the Faculty Wives Club at Northeast Louisiana State College. She was an early member and head of the Monroe Beautification Board and won five "Pacesetter" awards and a Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Contribution to the City of Monroe during the Mayor Jack Howard administration. She represented Monroe in New York City to accept the Keep America Beautiful Award given by Lady Bird Johnson. She was a member of Chapter AE of P.E.O. and was a sustaining alumnus of Zeta Tau Alpha.