Services are Held for Mrs. Carpenter

Funeral services were held Wednesday for Mrs. Lillie A. Carpenter at St. John’s Reformed church. Mrs. Carpenter died Sunday in Memorial hospital at Napoleon at the age of 80.

Surviving are a son, Roy, Liberty Center; daughter, Mrs. Lester Clapp, Napoleon; six grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Burial was at Young’s cemetery.

Obituary

Lillie A. Carpenter, eldest of two daughters born to Daniel and Kathryn Tremain on Aug. 13, 1868, in Fulton county, passed from this life at the Heller Memorial hospital in Napoleon March 27, 1949, aged 80 years, 7 months and 14 days.

Mrs. Carpenter, known by all her friends as Arcie, spent her youth in Fulton County and was a member of the Skeels School club.

On Dec. 24, 1886, she was united in marriage to Robert Carpenter of Liberty Center. Their first year was spent in Fulton county, moving to the Henry Carpenter homestead north of Liberty Center the second year, a portion of which farm was their permanent home until 1906 when they moved to LIberty Center.

To this union were born three children, Roy M., of Liberty Center; Ioma B. Clapp, of Napoleon, and Edna Mae, who passed away in infancy.

Mr. Carpenter preceded her in death on June 21, 1925.

Mrs. Carpenter was a wonderful mother, kind and cheerful to all who knew her, always ready to help those in sorrow and in need.

She was a member of the Victory United Brethren church, also a member of the Women’s Missionary society. Her presence will be greatly missed by all who knew her.

She leaves to mourn her passing, her two children, six grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Ruth Goodwin, of Delta, besides a host of other relatives and friends.