VINITA—Services for Willie Carpenter, 40, former Craig count
commissioner who died Thursday, will be at 2:30 p.m.
Saturday in the White Oak school gymnasium. Burial will be
in Lewis Shawnee cemetery, west of White Oak.
Carpenter served four months of his term as commissioner
before being forced to resign in October because of ill
health. His brother, R.L. Carpenter, succeeded him as
commissioner in the White Oak district.
Survivors include his wife, Amie; one son, Johnny Carpenter,
Tulsa; one daughter, Mrs. Reba Boyd, White Oak; his father,
Ben Carpenter, route 4, Vinita; three sisters, Mrs. Allen
Daic, route 4, Vinita; Mrs. Buck Secondine, Tulsa; Mrs. A.M.
Hunt, Vinita, and five brothers, R.L. and Leonard, White
Oak; Ross, Turley; Kenneth and George, both of Tulsa.
From The Oklahoma, 3/11/1950
Donated by:
Emily Jordan
