Peggy Gene Sousa Carpenter
Files
Dublin Core
Title
Peggy Gene Sousa Carpenter
Subject
Carpenter, Peggy Gene Sousa (1931-2021)
Description
Photograph of Peggy Gene (Sousa) Carpenter wearing a cape over a long skirt.
Peggy was the daughter of Felix Luis (1896-1988) and Mildred (Ramey) (1907-2001) Sousa, from Woodstock, although her father was born in Spain and immigrated in 1926. Her family moved to Staunton for a time when she was a girl and she graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in Staunton in 1949.
After high school, Peggy went to Winchester, where she was a student nurse at the hospital there and lived in a nurse’s boarding house in the 1950 census.
In February 1951, she married John Andrew Anderson, Jr., born in Washington D.C. and a graduate of Handley High School. They had a daughter together, Barbara (Anderson) Funk, but divorced in 1970. By then, John worked as an office manager for Shockey Bros. and Peggy was a nurse in a surgical clinic. Both of them lived in Winchester.
Peggy moved back to Woodstock where she married again, three years later, in Woodstock. Her second husband was Frank Strother Carpenter, Jr. (1929-1994), the son of Frank Strother and Minnie Osborn Carpenter. He was from Berryville in Clarke County. Like Peggy, this was his second marriage.
Peggy and Frank are buried in Berryville.
After high school, Peggy went to Winchester, where she was a student nurse at the hospital there and lived in a nurse’s boarding house in the 1950 census.
In February 1951, she married John Andrew Anderson, Jr., born in Washington D.C. and a graduate of Handley High School. They had a daughter together, Barbara (Anderson) Funk, but divorced in 1970. By then, John worked as an office manager for Shockey Bros. and Peggy was a nurse in a surgical clinic. Both of them lived in Winchester.
Peggy moved back to Woodstock where she married again, three years later, in Woodstock. Her second husband was Frank Strother Carpenter, Jr. (1929-1994), the son of Frank Strother and Minnie Osborn Carpenter. He was from Berryville in Clarke County. Like Peggy, this was his second marriage.
Peggy and Frank are buried in Berryville.
Creator
Morrison Studio
Source
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
Labelled "July 1949" on box of plates.
Contributor
Self identified by Peggy Gene Sousa Carpenter.
Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.
Rights
IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
Relation
Peggy Gene Sousa Carpenter appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 001007, 002615, 002728, 002778, 002838, 007010, 009219, 010692, and 017807.
Identifier
009702
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Glass Negative
Collection
Citation
Morrison Studio, “Peggy Gene Sousa Carpenter,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed May 7, 2024, http://archives.countylib.org/items/show/33090.
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