Carpenter, Atta Boak (1862-1921)

CARPENTER, BOAK, HAYDEN, QUACKENBUSH, HOWARD

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Date: 2/10/2017 at 15:00:08

Webster City Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Thursday, February 24, 1921

END COMES FOR MRS. CARPENTER

Mrs. C. D. Carpenter, Prominent and Widely Known Woman, Dies at her Home

HAD LONG ILLNESS

Funeral to be Held Thursday Afternoon at Congregational Church

Shortly before 10:30 o'clock Tuesday morning Mrs. C. D. Carpenter passed away at the family residence on south Willson avenue, after a painful and lingering illness covering more than a year. The end came quietly with intimate friends by her bed. She had been unconscious something like twenty-four hours. The cause of her death was malignant cancer. More than a year ago Mrs. Carpenter underwent an operation at Mercy hospital in this city the object of which was the removal of the cancer that even then threatened her life. For some time it was thought that the operation had been successful. Twice Mrs. Carpenter went to Chicago for expert treatment with the X-ray, in the hope that whatever of the dread disease the knife might have left in the system might be destroyed. Throughout her case everything had been done known to science to combat this dread disease. But about Thanksgiving of last year it became evident that the case was hopeless. She was obliged to take to her bed. Gradually she had grown worse. She had long wanted to go, and the end must have been a happy release.

Atta Avesta Boak Carpenter was born Aug. 28, 1862, on the old Boak home farm some three and a half miles northwest of Webster City. She grew to girlhood on the farm. As a girl she attended the old Boak school house. Later she moved into Webster City for schooling. She taught several terms of country school in the neighborhood of Webster City. Later she taught school in Webster City, and a wide circle of her old pupils still love and honor their former teacher. Mrs. Carpenter taught in the old north building when the building was new. She was married to C.D. Carpenter Oct. 2, 1883. The newly married couple lived on the old Carpenter farm southeast of the city. There Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter had lived, an ideally happy and prosperous life until a few years ago, when they moved to Webster City into the residence on Willson avenue which they built for themselves. In their city home, as on the farm, they had been the center of a social circle which enjoyed the Carpenter hospitality and friendship.

Mrs. Carpenter leaves to mourn her passing a host of friends and relatives. The immediate circle of bereavement is as follows: Her husband, C.D. Carpenter; her mother, Mrs. W.W. Boak, one of the oldest and most aged residents of Webster City; Mrs. Hellen Hayden, a sister now residing at Pagosa Springs, Colorado; Mrs. J.E. Quackenbush, a sister living in Webster City; Ilo I. Boak, a brother of Denver, Colorado; Mrs. Elva E. Howard, a sister living in Webster City; C. C. Boak, a brother residing at Tonopah, Nevada. Besides these brothers and sisters of the deceased two children died in childhood.

In the passing of Mrs. Carpenter death has taken a most charming personality from Webster City social circles. Mrs. Carpenter was a woman of fine physical presence. She had a queenly carriage and graceful social manners which made for her a wide circle of friends. To know Mrs. Carpenter was to admire and love her. She was a member of the local Congregational church, her membership dating from 1886. She loved the church and her influence was for the better social and religious life of the organization. In the Sunday school she was the successful and beloved teacher of a class of girls until encroaching sickness made the task impossible. On her sick bed she kept in mind every one of her girls and prayed for them. Until the last day or two she kept possession of a very clear mentality. She thought of everybody and planned largely for the future of her friends. Hers was a fine Christian character of the sort none too plentiful in these days. She lived her religion in the daily routine of her life. She is bound to be greatly missed from all her social circles because her influence was so positive and vital.

The funeral will be held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Congregational church. Her pastor, Rev. Arthur Metcalf, will have charge of the service. There will be a brief service at the residence on south Willson avenue at 2 o'clock, for the members of the family and immediate friends only. Interment will be made in Graceland cemetery.