Bruce grew up on a farm in Orion Township, Michigan, one of six children of Byron and Iva Chamberlain Carpenter.[1][2]
He married Virginia Vieg and they are the parents of four children.
Bruce died in Kalamazoo, Michigan, at age 57.[3][4]
Sources
↑ "United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XQ1L-VHC : accessed 28 January 2015), Bruce P Carpenter in household of Byron D Carpenter, Orion, Oakland, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0040, sheet 12A, family 280, line 18, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1017; FHL microfilm 2,340,752.
↑ "United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-27888-6671-79?cc=2000219 : accessed 28 January 2015), Michigan > Oakland > Orion Township > 63-62 Orion Township outside Lake Orion Village > image 36 of 63; citing NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012).
↑ "Michigan, Death Index, 1971-1996," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VZ1J-5P9 : accessed 4 February 2015), Bruce P Carpenter, 05 Apr 1980; from "Michigan, Death Index, 1971-1996," Ancestry; citing Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, death certificate number 14749, Michigan Department of Vital and Health Records, Lansing.
↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VM6Y-N27 : accessed 28 January 2015), Bruce Carpenter, Apr 1980; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
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