ANNA LEIGH CARPENTER WHITMAN DIED FRIDAY, JAN. 30, 2004. A MEMORIAL SERVICE WAS HELD TUESDAY, FEB. 3 AT CORINTH BAPTIST CHURCH WITH THE REV. MIKE COGGIN OFFICIATING. BURIAL FOLLOWED AT ROCKY MOUNT MEMORIAL PARK.
SHE WAS BORN IN NASH COUNTY TO THE LATE WALTER CARPENTER SR. AND CLEORA WILLAIMS CARPENTER. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER HUSBAND, DAVID LAWRENCE WHITEMAN AND HER BROTHER, WALTER CARPENTER JR.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER SON, DANNY WHITMAN AND WIFE PATRICIA OF NASHVILLE, DAUGHTER, JUNE HARRIS AND HUSBAND JAMES OF WARRENTON; FOUR GRANCHILDREN; FOUR STEP STRANCHILDREN; ONE GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER; FIVE STEP GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; SISTERS AND BROTHERS, RUTH BAILEY AND HUSBAND EARL, ROSELLE TYSON, ROCHELLE WHITEAD, TRUMAN CARPENTER AND WIFE MYRTLE OF NASHVILLE; ELEANOR HOWELL AN HUSBAND RAY OF MOMEYER, KATIE LYNCH AND HUSBAND MARVIN OF WILSON, BETTY JOHNSON OF SPRING HOPE; MAVIS WEBB OF HENDERSON, ALTON CARPENTER AND WIFE REBA OF YORKTOWN, VA, REDMON CARPENTER AND WIFE JOSEPHINE OF ROCKY MOUNT, AND RAVIN CARPENTER OF ELIZABETHTOWN, KY.
ARRANGEMENTS WERE BY JOHNSON CUSTOM FUNERALS AND CREMATIONS.