Janette Carter in Intensive Care Unit
Janette Carter, the last surviving child of Carter Family founders A.P.
and Sara Carter, has been admitted to the intensive care unit at the
Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport, Tenn. The 82-year-old
singer and musician is being treated for a variety of chronic ailments,
including Parkinson’s Disease and an infected gall bladder duct. She
had been in a rehabilitation center after falling and breaking her
wrist on Dec. 25 but was transported to the hospital’s emergency room
Tuesday night (Jan. 17) and later moved to the intensive care unit. She
is the niece of Maybelle Addington Carter — June Carter Cash’s mother
— the other founding member of the original Carter Family trio.