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Submitted: 8/19/08 • Approved: 8/19/08 • Last Updated: 4/3/18 • R14114-G0-S3
Alvin Witmer Carpenter
July 6, 1902 = Aug 28, 1977
Obituary - The Daily Item, Sunbury, Pa.
Alvin W. Carpenter, Senior Law Firm Member
SUNBURY - Alvin W. Carpenter, 75 of 101 N. 11th St., senior member of the law firm of Carpenter, Carpenter, Diehl and Kivko, died Sunday at 10 a.m. in the Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, where he was a patient since Aug. 17.
Born in Sunbury, July 6, 1902, he was a son of the late J. Palmer and Minerva Witmer Carpenter. He was married to the former Katharine Rockefeller for the past 48 years.
A graduate of Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, in 1924 and the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1927, he joined his father in the family law firm in Sunbury. In 1928 he was admitted to practice in law in all state and federal courts. He was a former assistant district attorney of Northumberland County, former city solicitor; and was solicitor for the Sunbury Municipal authority when it was first formed. He also served for 18 years as assistant attorney general of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
During World War II, he served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Intelligence and led the second wave of amphibian units ashore in the Normandy invasion on Omaha Beach.
Mr. Carpenter was a member of Zion Lutheran Church, Sunbury, and a member and past president of the church council, and superintendent of the adult Sunday school for more that 25 years; a member and past president of the Northumberland County Bar Association; a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association; a member of the American Bar Association; a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity; a solicitor and also a member of the board of directors of Susquehanna University; a member of the American Rose Society; a member and past master of Lodge 22 F&AM, Sunbury; member of the Williamsport Consistory, Irem Temple, Wilkes-Barre, member and past president of the Sunbury Kiwanis club, a member of the Sunbury Elks Lodge; Veteran of Foreign Wars; American Legion Post 201 , Sunbury, and the Friendship Hose Company, Sunbury.
Surviving in addition to his widow are three sons, Derr A . Carpenter of Camp Hill, Atty., John A. Carpenter of Sunbury and Peter R. Carpenter of Scottsdale, Ariz.; and eight grandchildren.
The funeral will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Apple Chapel of the Zion Lutheran Church, Sunbury, by the Rev. Robert A. Young, the Rev. Carl J. Johansson of Minneapolis and Dr. Gustav W. Weber of Selinsgrove
Burial will be in Pomfret Manor Cemetery, Sunbury.
Friends may call at the Carpenter residence at 101 N. 11th St. this evening from 7 to 9 and Tuesday from 2 to 4 p.m.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Jerre Wirt Blank Funeral Home, Sunbury.
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Sports page - The Daily Item, Sunbury, Pa.
Sports a la carte - Good friend Alvin W. Carpenter, esteemed Sunbury attorney and community leader who died earlier this week, maintained an abiding interest in young people in general and athletes in particular during his life-time. He always told this scribbler he cherished his opportunity to play high school (Sunbury) and college (SU) football under the late george O. (Kid) Stahl, a regional coaching legend whose techniques and ideas were way ahead of his time (1915-1930 era).
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*On May 22, 1928, Alvin Witmer Carpenter married Katherine Derr Rockefeller. They became the parents of three children: Derr Alvin, born January 18, 1931; John Andrew, born May 9, 1931, Peter Rockefeller, born April 18, 1939. Mrs. Carpenter is a daughter of Charles W. Rockefeller, a well-known attorney-at-law; and a granddaughter of Hon. William M. Rockefeller, who for twenty years was Judge of the Northumberland County Courts, and of John Derr, for twenty-two years president of the first National Bank of Sunbury.
*Source: Encyclopedia of Biography page: 389
Photo taken: May 2008
Family Plot Location: N 40º 52.150 W 076º 46.767
Contributed on 8/19/08 by stonyacres3
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