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Portrait of Delores Mary Carpenter
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Delores Mary Carpenter

June 7, 1940 – November 2, 2022
Lived 82 years
Dighton, Massachusetts
Life story

Delores was the wife of forty-eight years to the late Danny Carpenter Sr. Delores was born in Somerset, the daughter of the late Louis P. and Eileen (Costa) Charves. Mrs. Carpenter worked for Raytheon at different offices for fifty years, retiring in 2009. Delores was a communicant at Saint Nicholas of Myra Church in North Dighton and also taughtCCD at the former Saint Peters Church. She was the past president of the Dighton Little League for several years. Mrs. Carpenter cherished the time she spent with her family. Survivors are a daughter: Delores M. Nunes and her husband George of Dighton; four sons: Danny Carpenter Jr. and his wife Carolyn of Dighton; Darryl Carpenter and his wife Cheri of Henderson, NV; Derek Carpenter and his wife Michelle of Dighton; Drew Carpenter and his wife Colleen of Dighton thirteen grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; three sisters: Eileen Carpenter of Swansea; Theresa Sawyer of Townsend and Patricia Nannery of Marlboro; along with many nieces and nephews. She was the sister of the late Cecila Charves, Louis, Lawrence, Ronald, George and Joseph Charves and Hilda Springer.

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1940
Born June 7
1947
Delores was 7 when Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier
1955
Delores was 15 when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat
1963
Delores was 23 when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech
1971
Delores was 31 when Walt Disney World opened in Florida
1989
Delores was 49 when the Berlin Wall fell
1998
Delores was 58 when "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was published in America
2001
Delores was 61 when Apple introduced the iPod
2014
Delores was 74 when the Ice Bucket Challenge went viral
2020
Delores was 80 when SpaceX launched astronauts into orbit for the first time
2022
Passed away November 2, age 82
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I hope you're dancing in heaven with Grampa. We love and miss you so much.

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