Helen Totten Carpenter, 92, of 109 Fairfield St., Fayetteville, died Friday at Community-General Hospital after a brief illness.
A native of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Mrs. Carpenter lived in Fayetteville over 50 years.
She was an assistant to Dr. Max Rifkin in Syracuse for 25 years. Mrs. Carpenter was a graduate of Sayre High School in Pennsylvania and was a 1924 graduate of Syracuse University where she was a member of Phi Mu Sorority.
Mrs. Carpenter was a communicant of the First United Methodist Church of Syracuse for 54 years. She was a member and treasurer of Kinney Circle at the church. She was a member of the Comfort Tyler Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Her husband, Louis M. Carpenter, founder of Carpenter Manufacturing in Manlius, died in 1979. She was pre-deceased by a son, Hubert J. Carpenter, died in 1989.
Surviving are three grandchildren, Kenneth Carpenter of Manlius, Thomas Carpenter of Cazenovia and Susan Sorensen of Manlius; a sister, Ruth T. Aiken of Troy, several great-grandchildren and nieces.
Services will be 1 p.m. Monday at the Eaton-Tubbs-Schepp Funeral Home, 7191 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville, with the Rev. John Fulton officiating. Burial will be in Fayetteville Cemetery
Helen Totten Carpenter, 92, of 109 Fairfield St., Fayetteville, died Friday at Community-General Hospital after a brief illness.
A native of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Mrs. Carpenter lived in Fayetteville over 50 years.
She was an assistant to Dr. Max Rifkin in Syracuse for 25 years. Mrs. Carpenter was a graduate of Sayre High School in Pennsylvania and was a 1924 graduate of Syracuse University where she was a member of Phi Mu Sorority.
Mrs. Carpenter was a communicant of the First United Methodist Church of Syracuse for 54 years. She was a member and treasurer of Kinney Circle at the church. She was a member of the Comfort Tyler Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Her husband, Louis M. Carpenter, founder of Carpenter Manufacturing in Manlius, died in 1979. She was pre-deceased by a son, Hubert J. Carpenter, died in 1989.
Surviving are three grandchildren, Kenneth Carpenter of Manlius, Thomas Carpenter of Cazenovia and Susan Sorensen of Manlius; a sister, Ruth T. Aiken of Troy, several great-grandchildren and nieces.
Services will be 1 p.m. Monday at the Eaton-Tubbs-Schepp Funeral Home, 7191 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville, with the Rev. John Fulton officiating. Burial will be in Fayetteville Cemetery
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