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- The Modesto Bee
April 19, 2018
Patience Murray Carpenter entered eternal life Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at Memorial Medical Center in Modesto, California. Patience was born March 7, 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio to the late John Haskell and Margaret Quay Murray.
Patience attended Painesville schools and was graduated from Chagrin Falls High School and Dyke and Spencerian Business College in Cleveland, Ohio. Patience went on to be a secretary and receptionist for Congressman Oliver Bolton's office in Washington D.C. On September 26, 1953 Patience was married to her late husband, Rex Norman Carpenter USN, Ret., of Spring Hill, West Virginia at Saint Hubert's Chapel, in Kirtland Hills, Ohio. They were blessed with fifty-six years of marriage.
After her marriage the couple lived in Bakersfield, California. Her husband's U. S. Navy duties took her to New London, Connecticut and Newport, Rhode Island before moving to Norfolk, Virginia. They raised their two children in Norfolk and Virginia Beach with a three year detour to Gerrards Cross, England. Patience was a seven year resident of Ripon, California after the passing of her husband. The couple spent twenty-six years living in Roswell and Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Patience was a proud member of The Daughters of the American Revolution, Doña Ana, New Mexico chapter. She served as the National President and State Commander of the Wives of the United States Submarine Veterans of World War II.
Patience is survived by one son, Rex Murray Carpenter (Danae) of Tracy, California; one daughter, Martha Jean Cole (Thomas) of Virginia Beach, Virginia; one sister, Margaret Ann Titterington (Robert) of Ostrender, Ohio; four grandchildren, Jesse Ray Carpenter, Wyatt Evan Carpenter, Abbey Taylor Carpenter of Tracy California and Thomas Rex Cole of Virginia Beach, Virginia; several nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister, Martha M. Nogle of West Virginia.
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