Nash County NcArchives Obituaries.....Carpenter, Ernest 1972 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bruce Saunders bs4403@verizon.net April 10, 2015, 6:17 pm THE TIDEWATER NEWS - 04-24-1972, SECT. A, P. 8 ERNEST CARPENTER A funeral service for Ernest Carpenter, 88, of Route 1, Franklin, was held Saturday at 2 p.m. in I.O. Hill & Co. Funeral Home by the Rev. Arthur McGahan. Burial was in Holly Lawn Cemetery, Suffolk. A native of Nash County, he was the husband of Mrs. Susie Duck Carpenter and a son of Ruben and Mrs. Delcia Perry Carpenter. Besides his widow, surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Etta Crocker, Mrs. Lessie Vavarette, and Mrs. Ellen Crocker of Rocky Mount, N.C., and Mrs. Estelle Edwards of Franklin; seven sons, Lawrence B. Carpenter of Suffolk, Ruben Carpenter of Nansemond County, Ernest Mills Carpenter of Richmond, Joseph Carpenter of Portsmouth, and Jonas Perry Carpenter, Mack Henary Carpenter, and George Carpenter of Franklin; 29 grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/nash/obits/c/carpente1772nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb