Kay County OK Obit for: Donald Wayne Carpenter 
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Submitted to the archives by:Claudia Thiry, workfarm@kskc.net
Date submitted: 3/12/2003 
Transcribed from the Ponca City News, 
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Donald Wayne Carpenter

FAIRFAX - Donald Wayne Carpenter, Claremore resident, died Thursday, 
July 11, 1996, in the Indian Hospital at Claremore. He was 50.

The funeral will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Hunsaker-Wooten 
Funeral Chapel in Fairfax with the Rev. Johnny Redeagle and the Rev. 
Mary Fish officiating. Burial will be held with full military rites 
in the Grayhorse Cemetery, southeast of Fairfax.

Donald Wayne Carpenter was born Sept. 14, 1945, in Claremore, the son 
of Norman and Merle Blackbird McKinley Washabaugh. 

He was a member of the Osage and Otoe Tribes and his Indian name was 
Tse-Tsi-Tsu Kihekah. 

As a baby he was adopted by Marvin and Pauline Carpenter. 

He graduated from Capitol High School in Oklahoma City in 1962, then 
entered the U.S. Marine Corps. 

Carpenter served in the Vietnam War in "The Walking Dead" 1st Battalion 
9th Marines.

He was married to Debra G. Lasley on June 14, 1982 in Colorado Springs, 
Colo., and the couple made their first home in Pawhuska. 

The family later moved to Claremore. 

Carpenter was a member and board member of the Vietnam Vets of America, 
Tulsa Chapter. 

He enjoyed fishing, hunting and collecting guns. 

He was a member of the Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Debra, of the home in Claremore; two sons, 
Christopher Wayne Carpenter Kilpatrick of Oklahoma City and Chancellor 
Wayne Carpenter of the home; one daughter, Ciaradon Carpenter of the home; 
two brothers, John Norman Washabaugh of Tahlequah and Sam Notah of 
Bartlesville; four sisters, Rita Jo Badley of Ralston, Bonnie Green 
Whitekiller of Tahlequah, and Melissa Standridge and Julia Notah, both 
of Bartlesville; one grandchild; two uncles, and numerous nieces and nephews. 

He was preceded in death by his mother; his adoptive parents; one brother 
and one sister.

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