Linnie Rodgers Carpenter

Mathiston, Mississippi

December 21, 1926 – May 1, 2020

Linnie Rodgers Carpenter, aged 93, passed away at the North Mississippi Medical Center in Eupora, Mississippi on May 1, 2020 surrounded by her loved ones. Mrs. Carpenter was the wife of the late Oscar Carpenter and daughter of the late Charlie C. and Ethel M. Drake Rodgers.

Mrs. Carpenter was married for fifty-one years and she and her husband reared a family of four children. Billy, her son, can remember getting on the school bus telling his mother goodbye while she was hand-picking cotton. Her children can remember her delicious chicken and dressing and her homemade biscuits. She had the grandchildren come over on Friday night whenever possible for a spend the night party with grandmother. She loved them dearly and would prepare a breakfast of grilled cheese and scrambled eggs at any time of the day. She was a member of the VFW Lady's Auxiliary and Pilgrim's Rest Baptist Church.

Mrs. Carpenter is survived by her son, William "Billy" Clark (Charlie Mae) Carpenter of Maben, Mississippi; three daughters, Linda A. Bennett of Grenada Mississippi, Rebecca Joan (Thomas) Byars of Mathiston, Mississippi, and Betty Sue Perkins of Mathiston, Mississippi; six grandchildren, fourteen great grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren; two brothers, Donald Earl Rodgers and Sammy Rodgers; one sister, Billy Luttrell of Streator, Illinois; and a host of nieces, nephews and cousins.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Oscar Carpenter; parents, Charlie C. and Ethel M. Drake Rodgers; two grandchildren, Quinton Lamar Byars and William Carpenter, Jr.; one great-granddaughter, Sophie Grace Staten; five brothers, James A. Rodgers, Thomas J. "T. J." Rodgers, William Elvin "Jim" Rodgers, Jessie Rodgers, and Tommy Lee Rodgers; and seven sisters, Mattie Gilbert, Winnie Berg, Lillian Finch, Mary Lecorneau, Dotty Mae Pogue, Archie Mae Barnett, and Charles Ethelene Rodgers.