Funeral services for Mrs. Cora Carpenter were conducted at 2 p.m. Friday from the Gerth & Baskett funeral parlor, Rev. Edward L. Beall officiating. Burial was in Bethel cemetery.
Eighty-one year old, Mrs. Carpenter, a lifelong resident of Memphis, had suffered a stroke Nov. 26, and died at 9 a.m. Nov. 28 in St. Joseph Hospital, Keokuk. She had been in failing health for two years.
Born in 1870 to Leander and Sarah Ann Matlick Pence, the deceased in 1893 was married to T. W. Carpenter, who died in 1931.
Surviving are two brothers, Leonard Pence, Gorin and Joe Pence, Memphis; a sister, Mrs. Ada Wells, Memphis; and two half brothers, Clarence and Clyde Pence.
Cora E. (Pence) Carpenter obituary, Memphis, Missouri, Memphis Democrat, 6 Dec 1951, p. 1, col. 3
Funeral services for Mrs. Cora Carpenter were conducted at 2 p.m. Friday from the Gerth & Baskett funeral parlor, Rev. Edward L. Beall officiating. Burial was in Bethel cemetery.
Eighty-one year old, Mrs. Carpenter, a lifelong resident of Memphis, had suffered a stroke Nov. 26, and died at 9 a.m. Nov. 28 in St. Joseph Hospital, Keokuk. She had been in failing health for two years.
Born in 1870 to Leander and Sarah Ann Matlick Pence, the deceased in 1893 was married to T. W. Carpenter, who died in 1931.
Surviving are two brothers, Leonard Pence, Gorin and Joe Pence, Memphis; a sister, Mrs. Ada Wells, Memphis; and two half brothers, Clarence and Clyde Pence.
Cora E. (Pence) Carpenter obituary, Memphis, Missouri, Memphis Democrat, 6 Dec 1951, p. 1, col. 3
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