243. CARPENTER – Lavinia E. – 1871 – 1956
CARPENTER
– John W. – 1867 – 1945
[Married
Lavina BRANNUM December 12, 1886 (License Date)]
HUNTSVILLE TIMES
Tuesday, October 16,
1956
Mrs. Carpenter’s Rites
Held Today
Elderly Owens Cross
Roads Resident Died Monday, Rites at 3
Funeral service for Mrs. John CARPENTER, 85, were held
today at 3 p.m. from the Owens Cross Roads Methodist Church, with the Rev. Jack
CAIN officiating. Burial followed at
Moon Cemetery.
Mrs. Carpenter, a lifelong resident of Owens Cross Roads
community, and the oldest member of the Owens Cross Roads Methodist Church,
died yesterday at 4 a.m. She was the
last survivor of her immediate family, the Brannum family.
She is survived be three daughters, Mrs. Mattie TURNER
and Mrs. Allen MAPLES of Owens Cross Roads, and Mrs. Elizabeth CHANDLER of
Vinemont, Ala.; three sons, Gordon CARPENTER of Owens Cross Roads, Harry
CARPENTER of New Hope, and Woodrow CARPENTER of Bynum; 21 grandchildren and 14
great-grandchildren.
Grandchildren acted as pallbearers at the funeral.
HUNTSVILLE TIMES
Tuesday, May 1, 1945
J. W. Carpenter Taken
By Death
John Watkins CARPENTER, 78, of Star Route, Owens Cross
Roads, died shortly before midnight Monday at his home. He had been ill about three years.
Funeral services at the Owens Cross Roads Methodist
Church will be conducted by the Rev. E. M. DICKERSON, with burial in Moon
Cemetery under the direction of Laughlin-Service.
Active pallbearers will be Harold CARPENTER, Max
CARPENTER, Jim CARPENTER, Bill CARPENTER, Sammie MAPLES and Tom CHANDLER Jr.
A. H. ELLETT, M. F. MAPLES, James CAWTHORN, L. K.
KENNEDY, F. L. DRAKE and W. E. SPRAGINS have been named honorary pallbearers.
Mr. Carpenter is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lavinia
CARPENTER; three sons, George CARPENTER, Harvey CARPENTER and Woodrow CARPENTER;
three daughters, Mrs. Mattie TURNER, Mrs. W. F. CHANDLER and Mrs. Allen MAPLES,
and 18 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.