Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Carpenter, Lawrence B., 1974 

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LAWRENCE BATTLE CARPENTER 

  SUFFOLK - A funeral service for Lawrence Battle Carpenter, 66, was held 
Monday, March 18, in Tabernacle Baptist Church by the Rev. A. McGahan.

  Burial was in Holly Lawn Cemetery with R.W. Baker Funeral Home in charge.

  Pallbearers were: Gerline Butler, Raymond Butler, R. Carpenter, William 
Duck, Richard Duck, Jr., J.B. Duck, William Upton, Cecil Edwards, R.D. Simpson 
and Billy Taylor.

  Carpenter, of 220 Morgan St., husband of Mrs. Florence Duck Carpenter, died 
Friday in a hospital.

  A native of Nash County, N.C., he was a member of Tabernacle Baptist Church.

  Other survivors include six daughters, Mrs. Addie Asbell, Mrs. Nora Upton, 
and Mrs. Frances Mathais of Suffolk, Mrs. Stella Mae Daniels of Hertford, 
N.C., Mrs. Bettie Jane Crumpler of Petersburg, and Mrs. Elizabeth Carpenter of 
Windsor; and two sons Lawrence Carpenter Jr. and King S. Carpenter of Suffolk.


Lawrence Battle CARPENTER [Sr.], retired cabinet-maker, 
b. 2 Jul 1907, Nash Co., NC, d. 15 Mar 1974, Suffolk, 
interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 18 Mar 1974, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 28, 1974, p. 6A 

*His father Ernest & step-mother are also buried there. 
   Holly Lawn list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 

His widow 2m. widower Otha Randolph NIXON, in 1980.  He is buried with his 
   first wife in a WHITE-LANE family cemetery, Perquimans Co., NC. 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 74-008474. 


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