Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-08-17
MISS CARPENTER. FORMER
LOCAL TEACHER. PASSED
AWAY RECENTLY

As many of The Pilots readers re
member the late Miss Annie H. Car
penter well as Wausau teacher an(
worker in the First Methodist church
we take pleasure in publishing the
following obituary Of her, received re-
Gently by Mrs. c. S. Gilbert from Mrs
c. c. Parlin of Germantown, Pa:
| MEMORIAL
annie H. Carpenter, the older
daughter of Rev. c. E. Carpenter OF
the Wisconsin Conference, was born
at Sheboygan Falls, Wis, December
18th, 1871, died at the Deaconess
Home, Seattle, Wash, July 1st, 1920.
Being a daughter of the parsonage
she received her education. In various
public and high schools or her native
state. At the age of seventeen she en-
tered Lawrence College of Appleton
After completing her college course
she became teacher in the high
school at Wausau. This position she
held for fourteen years, with the ex-
ception of one year she spent in at
tendance at the University of Chica-
go.
Miss Carpenter felt the call of God
to devote her life to definite Christian
work and so she surrendered her we'll
paying position and entered the Chica-
go Training School in 1907 At the
close of her first year she accepted a
position as teacher in this school
where she taught for five years.
Never very strong physically her
health became SO impaired she gave
n hnT
Falls, Montana, where she spent one
year. While she was supposedly
there for rest and seeking health she
was constantly seeking opportunity to
be helpful to some one, and hence
made herself very useful in teaching.
in the fall of 1914 she accepted the
call to teach in the Northwest Train
ing School in Seattle. In 1918 she
was elected superintendent of the
school, which position she neld at the
time Of her death.
"The only near relative that sur
wives her is Mrs. Clemans, wife of
Rev. B. F. Clemans, pastor of
East Mill Plain charge, Puget Sound
Conference.
Miss Carpenter was a woman of
deep personal piety. Hers was not a re-
ligion of profession simply but of life
constant, fervent, consistent,
flowing on like river.
"She was exceedingly modest,
rather Understanding her gifts and
influence.
"She was great teacher If she
had speciality in her teaching, it was
the Bible. She loved and believed in
the Word of God. She so taught that
the characters of the Bible became liv-
ing characters to her STUDENTS. It's
truths vital truths. She put so much
OF her own character and Spirit into
her teaching that her students got
hold of the spirit as well as letter Of
the Book.
"She was woman of great faith.
She saw the needs of our school and
set about in wise way to meet them
She was not blind to the almost insur-
mountable difficulties but she felt that
the school was a vine or Gods own
planting and that He cares for His
own so that when the board was al
most discouraged and some despaired
she believed for success and her
faith and labor of love have borne
"The building has been enlarged, all
indebtedness provided for and a very
hopeful outlook for the future.
'"The conservation of Miss Carpenter
to God and His work was complete.
She knew physical infirmities and
bodily pain but these drove her closer
to her Lord. The past year she has
suffered far more than anyone knew
but insisted on continuing ner work,
sometimes teaching her Grass in Bible
propped up on her couch. She taught
until the close of the school year and
then assisted by Miss Kortmeyer, the
secretary, prepared the Year Book fer
publication.
''The day before her death she went
over the final proof.
Her faith, her conservation, her hu-
mility, her patience and fortitude
have been an inspiration to the other
teachers, the students and the Board
of Trustees. No one can measure the
influence of her life. She lives in the
lives and work of thirty-three young
women in the Foreign Mission field
and probably as many or more in var
ious activities in the home land who
have graduated from her classes.
''The sweet incense of her life will
live forever.
" Servant of God, we'll done.
Thy glorious warfare is past;
The battle is fought, the victory won,
And thou art crowned at last"
Geo Tandan