Mrs Dorothy H Carpenter

Mrs. Dorothy Hemphill Carpenter, retired plan assigner for Bell South and resident of Spring Hill, died Friday, May 5, 2006, at Life Care Center. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 P.M. Sunday at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home with Brother Andrew Roberts officiating. Entombment will be in Polk Memorial Gardens mausoleum. Memorials may be made to Columbia Academy, 1101 West Seventh Street, Columbia, TN 38401. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the funeral home at www.oakesandnichols.com. A native of Hazel Green, Alabama, she was the daughter of the late L. D. Hemphill and Emma Lou Philpot Hemphill. She was a member of Jackson Heights Church of Christ. Survivors include her husband of forty years, James N. Carpenter of Spring Hill; one daughter and son-in-law, Gina Lou & Scott Turner of Columbia; one sister-in-law, Virginia Hemphill of Louisville, Kentucky; one grandchild, Malli Shea Turner of Columbia; nieces, Lynda Cannon and Anita Adams, both of New Albany, Indiana; Carol Lewis of Louisville, Kentucky; Carol Vickers, Doris Hooper, and Gwen Wilkinson, all of Huntsville, Alabama; two nephews, Ricky Hemphill of Louisville, Kentucky; Bill Hemphill of New Jersey. Pallbearers will be Kenny Young, David Foster, Chris Shrader, Mickey Shrader, Brent Turner, and Richard Pilkinton. Honorary pallbearers will be elders and deacons of Jackson Heights Church of Christ.