Christeen Carpenter
Posted: April 9, 2019
AMORY — Christeen Carpenter, 98, died April 7, 2019, at Diversicare Nursing Home. Services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Cleveland-Moffett Funeral Home with Chuck Moffett, Bobby Cleveland and David Highland officiating. Burial will follow at the Masonic Cemetery. Visitation is from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Cleveland-Moffett Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Ms. Carpenter was born Dec. 12, 1920, in Pecan Gap, Texas, to the late Jeff Rea and Mattie Williams Rea. She attended Wren School and was formerly employed as a seamstress with Amory Garment. She was a member of Primitive Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Ellis Carpenter; sisters, Dora Lee Conwill, Clara Mae Dykes and Mattie Frances Stewart; and brothers, Rubel Rea and Bud Rea. She is survived by her daughters, Betty Parham Miller of Hatley and Julia Rea Bickerstaff of the Carolina Community; sister, Ruth Farrar of Amory; seven grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and 21 great-great-grandchildren.