Larry Carter

Larry Carter of Greensboro is left with a lot of questions over the death of his daughter, Dina Carter, who was killed in a bombing in Israel. (Journal Photo by John Railey)
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Larry Carter had been worried about how his daughter was making it in violence-racked Israel, but he knew nothing of her life, not even whether she was married (she was single).

Carter, a 38-year-old librarian, died in a bombing in Jerusalem on Wednesday and was buried yesterday in a hilltop graveyard there, taking answers with her and leaving questions for her father and others who knew her.

Roberta Roham of Greensboro, who played volleyball with Carter, described her as "a very nice, moral person."
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Carter attended St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church, but wasn't especially devout, her friends said.

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Jews helped build Greensboro, but Larry Carter said his daughter didn't become interested in Judaism until she was at Duke University.Though Catholicism centers on the divinity of Jesus and Judaism teaches that the Messiah has not come, both faiths are laden with ritual, ritual that in the case of Catholicism stems in part from the practices of Jesus, who was Jewish.

After graduating from Duke with a degree in anthropology in 1986, Carter gained a master's degree in social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.For a while, she worked in California, her father said.

When she was out West, Dina Carter made her decision to move to Israel.Larry Carter declined to talk about his daughter's choice, or her relationship with her family.But in a phone interview with an Associated Press reporter from Jerusalem, he said that the family had argued over her decision to convert and move to Israel.

"But like any family, we worked through that and thought that everything was OK," he said.He said his last contact with his daughter was a phone chat, which he described as pleasant, shortly before she left for Israel.

"Once she did emigrate and did convert, it was like she started her separate life," he said.