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Mary Carpenter 

Submitted by Sally Kaleta 17 Nov 2010

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The Downey Eagle 
Friday, July 16, 1999
Vol. 7 No. 21

Former Vultee worker Mary Carpenter mourned
DOWNEY-Memorial services and burial were July 15 at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier for Mary S. 
Carpenter, a Downey resident since 1945 and a former worker at Vultee Aviation in Downey as well as 
at North Junior High. 
She died July 9 in La Mirada. She was 91, born Oct. 7, 1907 near Draper, South Dakota, the second of 
six children of Ray and Bernice Smith. 
She later lived in Mississippi and Ohio before coming west with her husband, William. They were married 
60 years. He was a longtime employee of Baker Oil Tools in Commerce, and preceded her in death. 
Survivors include her son, William Jr., and daughter-in-law Rosalie of Downey; grandsons Mark of Anaheim 
and Roger (and his wife Darla) of Fresno; great-grandsons David and Daniel of Fresno; sister Ruth Sellers of 
Polk, Ohio; nephews Dale Smith and Perry Smith of Ashland, Ohio, and Don Smith of Mansfield, Ohio; and 
nieces Joylee Watson of Polk, Ohio, and JoAnn Joseph of Indian Rocks Beach, Florida.