Peggy Gene Sousa Carpenter, Harold Schefftt and Roberta A. Sousa Dorton

Peggy Gene Sousa Carpenter, Harold Schefftt and Roberta A. Sousa Dorton

Carpenter, Peggy Gene Sousa (1931-2021)

Schefftt, Harold Collis

Dorton, Roberta Ann Sousa

Photograph of Peggy Gene (Sousa) Carpenter, seated, and holding her cousin, Harold Collis Schefftt on her lap. Roberta Ann (Sousa) Dorton, Peggy's sister, is standing on the right beside them.

Peggy Gene Sousa Carpenter was born in Woodstock Virginia to parents Felix Luis Sousa (1896-1988) and Mildred (Ramey) Sousa (1907-2001). She lived in Staunton for a time when she was a girl and graduated from that city’s Robert E. Lee High School in 1949.

After high school, Peggy moved to Winchester and attended nursing school before working at Winchester Memorial Hospital. In the 1950 census she lived in the hospital’s nurses’ boarding house.

In February 1951, she married John Andrew Anderson Jr. of Winchester. They had a daughter together, Barbara (Anderson) Funk, but they divorced in 1970. At that time Peggy was working at a surgical clinic in Winchester and living in that city.

After her divorce, Peggy returned to Woodstock. In 1973 she married Frank Strother Carpenter, Jr. and remained married until his death in 1994.

Peggy died in 2021 and is buried with Frank in Berryville Virginia.

Harold Schefftt died in an automobile accident when he was only twenty years old, leaving behind a wife, Barbara Hottle Schefft, and parents, Glenn Collis and Magdalene (Ramey) Schefft. At the time of his death, Harold was an auto mechanic and lived in Woodstock.

Morrison Studio

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Shenandoah County Library

Labelled "Aug 1945" of box of plates.

Identified by Peggy S. Carpenter who was the older girl in the photograph. She has the same photograph at home.

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Peggy Gene Sousa Carpenter appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 001007, 002615, 002728, 002778, 002838, 007010, 009219, 010692, and 017807.

Harold Collis Schefft appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 002585, 003617, 007010 and 007011.

Roberta Ann (Sousa) Dorton appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 001007, 007010, 009417, and 010693.

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Glass Negative