Tad carpenter with his parents12/16/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Grandchildren: Brant (Kristy) Carpenter, Bountiful Gary Carpenter, Salt Lake City Kent Carpenter and fiance Cami Williams, Salt Lake City granddaughter Heather Volquardsen and grandson John Volquardsen and two great grandsons-Cameron and James Carpenter. Ted is survived by his wife, Betty Ann Anderson Carpenter, son Guy Ted (April) Carpenter, Fruit Heights daughter Mitzi (Russell) Volquardsen, Spokane, Washington sister Margie (Bud) Carpenter Steck, Salt Lake City. He served in the Service Battery 145th Field Artillery Battalion in the Manti, Utah National Guard unit. He had a great love for his Savior Jesus Christ and His Atonement. He had many hard trials during his sojourn in this life, but they lead him to want to be a better person and build a strong testimony of the gospel. He also served as a veil worker at the Jordan River Temple for ten years. He served in many callings, one being a home teaching/visiting teaching companion with his wife, Betty, in the Mountain Shadow 6th ward. Ted was a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He dearly loved his wife and family often wishing he had greater eyesight to have had a more active part in their lives, but he found ways to overcome it and still be a part of his family. He had many talents-one being a friend to all. He enjoyed watching and cheering the Jazz on to victory. He also played the clarinet in the Manti High School marching band. He played tennis at Manti High School and was on the team at Snow College. ![]() When he was young, he and his friends would set up a Monopoly game, negotiating and bartering, for days. Ted enjoyed the deer and pheasant hunt, dancing and card games, especially Rook-the family tradition. The Business Enterprise Program (BEP) for the blind helped him to set up a cafeteria-vending operation in 1993 in the Salt Lake City area. In 1991 he lost most of his sight to glaucoma and this ended his career as a farmer. With his wife and family, Ted owned and operated a beef cattle operation and later added a dairy herd to their farm northwest of Manti. Two children blessed their lives - Guy Ted Carpenter and Mitzi Gay Carpenter They made their home in Manti, UT until 1993. He married his wife and sweetheart, Betty Ann Anderson in the Manti Temple on September 29,1961. He graduated from Manti High School, and then went on to graduate from Snow College. Ted was born on Oct 27,1936, at home to Nora Lucile Braithwaite and Heber Eugene Carpenter and older sister, Margie, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah. Our dear Ted Eugene Carpenter, age 83, passed away after a valiant struggle with Multiple Myeloma at his home in West Jordan, UT on Thursday, Feb 27, 2020, with his wife and daughter by his side. ![]()
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