Rita Carnes

Rita S. Stackhouse Carnes passed away on Tuesday morning, July 16, 2024 after a nearly two week stay in IU Methodist Hospital ICU. 

Rita was a graduate of Springs Valley High School, Class of 1962. She married her love, Bobby R. Carnes, on August 25, 1962 and he preceded her in death on May 2, 2011. She worked with her husband in the Orange County Recorder’s Office where she was Deputy Recorder and then Recorder. Most importantly, she was a fantastic wife and mother. 

If you knew Rita, you knew her to be a kind, loving, and loyal human being. She was also very witty. She loved her family and friends fiercely. She excelled as a pianist, was a voracious reader, watcher of British crime dramas and documentaries, and loved cats and was very lovingly tolerable of dogs. She was intensely private by nature and granted the same to others. All around, a decent human being. 

She had attended West Baden First Baptist Church and, more recently, Springs Valley Wesleyan Church. Many thanks for Pastor John Moffatt for his compassionate care and concern. 

Rita was preceded in death by: -Husband: Bobby R. Carnes -Son: Eric G. Carnes -Parents: Eugene & Juanita Glenn Stackhouse -Sister & BIL: Carol Stackhouse Owen and Michael Owen -Nephew: Chris Carnes. 

Rita is survived by: 

-Daughter & SIL: Gina & Phillip McCarty 

-Step-Daughter: Linda Carnes Szczech and her children and grandchildren: 

-Melissa (Andrew) Iverson and their children: Oliver, Vivian, & Eleanor 

-Kristie Szczech (Colin) 

-Michael (Christie) Szczech 

-Brother: Ronnie (Judy) Carnes, children, and grandchildren 

-Daughter-in-Law: Darla Weikert Carnes and her children and grandchildren: 

-Olivia (Blake) Robling and their son, Weston 

-Nathan Carnes 

-Zachary (Emma) Carnes and their son, Corbin 

-Many beloved nieces and nephews of which there are too many to list. 

Brosmer-Kemple Funeral Home is in charge of cremation. There will be no formal service at this time. Her daughter’s heart is broken and unable to provide any further mental or emotional interactions at this time. 

Please remember to enjoy your loves, do no harm, laugh, sprinkle kindness, and live like it’s your last day on earth.

Arrangements are in the care of Brosmer-Kemple Funeral Home, French Lick, Indiana. 47432. Condolences may be made on our website – www.brosmer-kemplefuneralhome.com.