Leora Phyllis Anderson Carpenter died Saturday, June 2, 2018, after a stroke. She was 92. Leora grew up in a small farmhouse outside Cannon Falls, Minn., with her parents, Edgar and Bernice Anderson, her sister, Carol, and her brother, Curtis. She often told stories of life on the farm, playing house in the orchard, bringing lunch to her dad in the field or seeing her mother shoot a chicken, pluck it and cook it for dinner. She married Lee Burke Carpenter and they had four children, Ann Lynn, Christopher Lee, Catherine Louise and Carol Leora. They moved around the country for Lee's oil industry job, settling in Metairie, where she lived in the same house for more than 50 years. She played tennis and rode her bicycle and enjoyed many handcrafts, sewing clothes for her family. She also took up at various times macrame, painting, crochet, knitting, embroidery and quilting. Many family members have one of her creations, which include sock monkeys and a cat quilt that won first place in a local quilt show. She was a volunteer at East Jefferson General Hospital, mostly at the information desk, for more than 40 years. She was a longtime member of the Daughters of the King at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Metairie, where she was a member from its beginning. A week before her stroke she walked into a restaurant with her family and enjoyed her annual Mother's Day Eve lobster dinner. Her survivors include daughter Ann and her husband, Adrian; son Chris and his wife, Karen; daughters Cathy and Carol; grandson Shanti, grandson Roland and his wife, Mellissa, and granddaughter Michele and her husband, Randy; great-grandchildren Lauren, Jourdan, Skyler and Ashton; and great-great-grandchildren Aiden, Jaxon and Sebastian. Other survivors include nephews Carsten, Bruce and Jeff Peterson and Jeff's wife, Deb; her sister-in-law, Lee Anderson; nieces Cindy and Mary; sister-in-law Bonnie Holt and her husband, Vern; sister-in-law Alice Dabelow and her husband, Herbert; and sister-in-law Marilyn Weinand and her husband, Lowell. She will be sorely missed by her granddogs, Kaylee Jewel, Olive Petunia and Leah Viola. A funeral will be held Sunday, June 10, at 3 p.m. at St. Augustine's, 3412 Haring Road in Metairie. Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to the St. Augustine's Endowment Fund or the St. Augustine's Memorial Fund.
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