Deborah L Carpenter
July 4th 1953 - July 21st 2022
In the care of Newcomer Funeral Home in Saint Peters.
Deborah Lee Carpenter passed away peacefully in her home in O Fallon Missouri, July 21st 2022 at the age of 69. She is survived by her two sons Jeremy and Brian Carpenter, her sister Martha Brockmeyer, nephews Chris Brannaker, John and David Muir, and David Lentz, and nieces Sonja Hargis, and Denise Lentz.
Deborah was born on July 4th 1953 to Lloyd Harrison Davis and Ollie (Nadine) Davis (Forbey). As an insightful introverted child, Debbie never liked loud intrusive noises like fireworks. She also loved Christmas and Christmas music, but struggled growing up with allergies from the trees brought into the house on this season.
She had a learning disability as a child making reading difficult, but with the help of a tutor who taught phonetics, she was an avid reader, always with a book in hand, and was considered the smartest of the three youngest children, according to her sister Martha. She was quiet, always observant and when asked her opinion was always spot on. She was the youngest of five siblings. Evelyn Brannaker, who doted on her youngest sibling, and Wayne Belue, the eldest half siblings and Martha and Paul, her older siblings.
As her older siblings were making families of their own, Deborah diligently helped her mother around the house, and with babysitting her nieces and nephews. Bowling, and the outdoors were her recreational interests growing up in Ellisville MO, where she met her neighbor and soon to be husband, Timothy Paul Carpenter. They moved to Ballwin Missouri after they married, where they had an artificial Christmas tree, and had two sons, Jeremy and Brian.
Both boys faced major health issues and, struggled when they were young, but with a strong mother, and an amazing support from the church and community, and the healing power of God, they powered through. Debbie loved her sons, and would encourage her son Jeremy to play her his dad's guitar.
She was kind, and sweet, and thoughtful with a phone call. She adored animals, and was outraged at injustice. She worked primarily in retail service at Dolgins, and later at Sears in Chesterfield, where she was a sought-after paint advisor for many years. She worked at Walmart and she was a bus monitor at Missouri Central School bus company. For many years, Deborah has expressed a desire to move to the Lake of the Ozarks.
She will be cremated, and her remains will be spread at a private ceremony on the lake.