Bamberg County funeral home announces obituary for newborn Truth Amir Lashawn Carter

Truth Amir Lashawn Carter, born February 19, 2026 in Aiken, South Carolina, died April 5, 2026, an obituary posted on J H Robinson Funeral Home’s Most Recent Obituaries page states. The funeral-home notice, published in early April 2026 from J H Robinson Funeral Home - Wagener, was syndicated on aggregator sites including Echovita and Legacy to reach relatives and friends outside the area.

The obituary lists parents Andrea Patterson of Williston, South Carolina, and Telvin Ernest Carter of Fairfax, South Carolina. Survivors named in the public notice and aggregated listings include Lola Patterson, Ernest Carter, Carolyn Carter, Tara Williams, Ronnie Williams, Gavin Johnson, and sibling Honesty Amira Michelle Carter, and it notes Lashanda Patterson as predeceased. Those names and relationships appear on the Echovita memorial entry that reproduces the family roster supplied to the funeral home.

J H Robinson Funeral Home’s Wagener office is the primary contact for service logistics and family requests: 190 Railroad Avenue West, Wagener, SC 29164, phone (803) 564-5521. The obituary on the funeral-home page provides the family’s chosen commemoration language and contact details for condolences and any guestbook or memorial updates; aggregated postings on Legacy and Echovita mirrored that information to ensure out-of-area relatives could see visitation or service notices.

The child’s death has prompted customary local responses documented in past community notices, including prayer vigils, meal support and pastoral aid from congregations and neighbors, reflecting Bamberg County’s faith-centered civic life. As of April 12, 2026, there were no public statements from Bamberg County elected officials, local hospitals or county health agencies about this specific death, leaving the funeral home and the family as the authoritative sources for service details and family requests.

State public-health figures underscore why individual infant deaths also draw wider attention: South Carolina reported a 2023 infant mortality rate of roughly 7.0 deaths per 1,000 live births, with 403 infant deaths in 2023, and documented racial disparities such as an 11.7 per 1,000 rate for infants born to Black mothers compared with 5.2 per 1,000 for infants born to white mothers. County-level infant mortality counts are often reported as multi-year averages because small-year-to-year changes can be volatile; public-health agencies advise using multi-year data for local trend analysis.

For bereavement resources, the obituary points readers to the funeral-home contact for memorial preferences and to national supports frequently used by families in similar situations, including March of Dimes bereavement materials, Share Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support, and regional hospital bereavement programs such as MUSC Children’s grief and bereavement services. The funeral-home posting remains the public record for any updates to visitation, memorial preferences or donation requests related to Truth Amir Lashawn Carter.