Suffolk City-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Carpenter, Ernest, 1972 

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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.


Ernest CARPENTER, retired farmer, 
Nash Co., NC native, d. 19 Apr 1972, Emporia, age 88, 
interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 22 Apr 1972, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 24, 1972, A-8 

*Holly Lawn list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 

D.Cert. 72-010761 

He 1m. Addie JOYNER, 12 Jan 1904 in Nash Co., NC 

Their infant daughter Maggie Lee d. Jun 1917, Coopers Twp, Nash Co., 
   and was buried at P.B. BOONE's Home, 10 Jun 1917, 
   while Ernest was living in Elm City. 


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