Carpenter, Mahala Anna 1887-1968

CARPENTER, ROBB, ZIRBEL

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 12/28/2010 at 16:45:34

Brooklyn (IA) Chronicle; August 1, 1968

MRS. R.R. CARPENTER

Funeral services were at 1 p.m. July 26 in the First United Presbyterian church in Brooklyn for Mrs. R.R. Carpenter, who died at her home here July 24 after a lengthy illness.

The Rev. George Roquet, pastor, officiated at the service. Mrs. Ed Bartachek was organist.

Burial was in Ivy Hill cemetery at Malcom, with the following serving as pallbearers: Wilbur Baltisberger, Ronald Baltisberger, John Douglass, Walter Audas, Wayne Stimson and Joseph Roth. Flower attendants were Mr. and Mrs. John Edelen and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Evans.

Mahala Anna Robb, daughter of H.N. and Alice M. Robb, was born at Orient, Iowa, Feb. 5, 1887. She moved, with her parents, to a farm near Greenfield, and later to Arvilla, N.D. where she lived until the family returned to Prairie City, where she was graduated from high school in 1906, the same year her parents moved to Malcom.

She attended Grinnell college and also Normal college at Cedar Falls. She taught rural schools in Poweshiek county for two years, a year at Thornton and two years at Lake Mills.

She was married to Reynolds Carpenter April 9, 1913. The couple lived on a farm south of Brooklyn until 1947, when they moved to Brooklyn, where she lived until her death.

She was a member of the Presbyterian church in Malcom since 1906. She was an active member of the Farm Bureau and a leader of girls' 4-H for 25 years, and had received a diamond pin in recognition of her work.

Surviving are her husband and a sister, Irma Zirbel, of Mitchellville, and six nieces. She was preceded in death by her parents and three sisters.