Ambrose Carpenter

Ambrose Carpenter August 11, 1920 - December 31, 2008

On the last day of 2008 Ambrose took his last earthly breath and went to live eternally with God. The cause of his death came from complications of Parkinson''s disease and Pneumonia. With the exception of an old and tired body, he left with a young spirit and big heart at the mere young age of 88. Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday, January 5, 2009 at 10:30 a.m. at the Divine Mercy Catholic Church, at Sacred Heart in Faribault, with the Rev. Fernando Ortega, officiating. Interment will be held at the Meadow Ridge Memorial Park, Faribault with military honors provided by the Rice County Central Veterans Organization. Visitation will be held at the Parker Kohl Funeral Home in Faribault on Sunday from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. and at the church on Monday for one hour prior to services. Ambrose Ernest Carpenter was born to Adelord and Mata (Plitzkow) Carpenter on August 11th in the year of 1920. He was born and raised in the Fox Lake area on their family farm. He grew up with an appreciation for the simple farm life as did his siblings, Bernard, Violet and Leonard. He loved to fish and dream and flourished in just being outdoors, a passion that would remain his entire life. He grew to be a handsome yet shy young man. So it was then later at a dance at the Blue Moon that he laid eyes on the love of his life, Stella Uhlir. It took a while and more chance encounters before he braved an approach to court her. After two years having earned her hand in marriage, their wedding took place on the cold wintery day of January 7, 1942 at St. Patrick''s Catholic Church in Shieldsville. He thought he was marrying an angel and would tell of this memory often. For as Stella walked up the isle to him in her white flowing gown, the heat registers directly beneath her in the isle blew her gown up and out and made her appear to be as a beautiful floating angel. They began their lives together by settling out east of Faribault on one of his father''s farms. Life was so good, their spring chicks were delivered, the crops were in and their first child was on its way. But then with the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the beginning of World War II, he was drafted into the U.S. Navy and within just weeks had to leave his happy farm life and the wife that he so loved to board the USS Tryon APHI. He was schooled prior for the duties of engine repair and boiler room. He thought it was fortunate that the Tryon would have its own Chaplain, Francis De Sales W. Nolan and would develop a very close relationship with him that followed for years after. But the main purpose of the USS Tryon was to go

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