Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Doris Dee Carpenter, 89, a homemaker and church member, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Oct. 8 at her home
in the Chancellor's Village retirement community in Fredericksburg.
Mrs. Carpenter was born in Kansas City, Mo., and moved to Washington in 1933, when her father became deputy second
assistant postmaster general. She graduated from Western High School and attended the former Stratford College in Danville,
Va.
She married in 1936 and lived in Arlington County for the next 40 years. She was a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in
Arlington and the Washington Golf and Country Club. She enjoyed bridge, duckpin bowling and the Washington Senators.
She moved in 1977 to Locust Grove, Va., where she became a fan of the Atlanta Braves. She moved to Fredericksburg in 2001.
Her husband, Homer S. Carpenter, died in 2001. A daughter, Susan C. Ablett, died in 1998.
Survivors include a son, Thomas J. Carpenter of Alexandria; a brother; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
-- Patricia Sullivan