Posted on: Cherry Co. Ne Obituaries Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ne/CherryObits?read=29 Surname: Carver, Gould ------------------------- Pioneer quarter horse breeder Frank A. Carver, 82, died December 31, 1977, in Tucson, Arizona, after attending the horse races. He had just completed visits with all his children. Frank Carver was raising performance and race horses at his 4-J Ranch in Cherry County at Crookston, 11 miles west of Valentine, Nebr. before the American Quarter Horse Association was formed and was a founding member of the state association which he served as president 1957-59. He was past director of the National Quarter Horse Racing Association and an honorary vice president of the AQHA. He was a respected AQHA judge for more than 15 years. In 1959 he was awarded the Nebraska Stock Growers Association's "Award of Merit" for his unselfish attitude toward all competitors and in promoting better quarter horses. At the 1977 Cherry County Fair, horse lovers leading horses branded the 4-J into the area presented Carver with a hand-tooled leather plaque in appreciation of Carver-bred performance horses. The group included 4-H members, rodeoers, people on the show circuit, ranchers and others. Frank A. Carver was born to Stephen and Nora Ann Carver, May 20, 1895 on a farm at Cambridge, Nebr. He graduated from the School of Agriculture, University of Nebraska in 1916. He married Greeta Cyrena Gould on June 9, 1920, at Cambridge, and they moved to the ranch at Crookston in 1928. He was preceded in death by his parents and siblings, Gilbert Carver and Mae E. Talbot. Survivers include his wife Greeta, a daughter, Maurine (Willard) Hoffman, Mesa, Ariz; two sons, Dr. Frank G. (Betty) Carver, San Diego, Calif, and Stephen E. (Joan) Carver, Crookston, nine grandchildren and one great grandchild; a brother Lawrence, California and two sisters, Gladys Nichols, Murdock, Nebr. and Vera Boykin, Kearney, Nebr. Services were held Jan 6, 1978, at the United Methodist Church with Watts Funeral Home in charge. Burial was at Mount Hope Cemetery, Valentine.