Keith C. Carpenter

© Enid News and Eagle

07-10-2015

Submitted by: Glenn

© Enid News and Eagle

Memorial service for Keith C. “Curly” Carpenter, 85, of Enid, Okla., will be 2 p.m. Saturday, July 11, 2015, in the chapel at Anderson-Burris Funeral Home, with Mr. Brian Meyer officiating. Military honors are by the U.S. Navy. A private family burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Keith was born Nov. 16, 1929, to Beulah May and Herbert O. Carpenter on a farm near Medford, Okla., and died in Enid on Wednesday, July 8, 2015, with his family by his side.

He was the fifth child of nine and attended school in Medford until 1941, when the family relocated to Wichita, Kan. He attended junior high school in Wichita and high school in Havre De Grace, Md.

Keith then returned to Wichita and enlisted in the U.S. Navy in October 1950.

He was assigned to a Naval Air Patrol squadron and served in Korea, China, Okinawa and Alaska.

He was awarded the Korean Service Medal, National Defense Medal, United Nations Medal, China Service Medal, the Air Medal and Good Conduct Medal.

Keith was honorably discharged in August 1954, and then returned to Wichita, Kan., to work for Boeing Airplane Co. in Wichita and then in Seattle, Wash., until 1966.

Keith was married to Marvalee Mae Hatcher in 1956, and they had three wonderful children.

Later, the family moved to Lahoma, Okla., and he worked at Vance Air Force Base in Enid until his retirement in 1994. Keith and Georgia Brown of Enid were married in 1988.

Keith was preceded in death by his wife, Georgia; parents; four brothers, Floyd, Gerald, Leroy and Eugene; and grandson, Craig Carpenter.

He is survived by his three children, Barbara Friend and husband David of Lahoma, Mark Carpenter and wife Carol of Enid, and Dana Randolph of Lahoma; 10 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and three brothers, Norman Carpenter and wife Pat of Clearwater, Kan., Herbert Carpenter Jr. and wife Lena of Canada, and Don Kent of Derby, Kan.; one sister, Dorothy Light of Semi Valley, Calif.; other relatives and friends.

Memorials may be made to Ross Hospice or Lahoma Fire Department.

Guestbook is available at www.andersonburris.com.

(Submitted by family)

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