Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Ashey Cemetery

Mr Ernest Frank Carpenter

Title: Mr
Forenames: Ernest Frank
Surnames: Carpenter
Date of Birth: 28/08/1916
Date of Death: 17/08/2006
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG A07
Plot Number: Ashey Cemetery Section G Plot 1076
Grave Description: Upright white marble book on plinth with integral flower holder
Grave Condition: Good
Other Information: In September 2012 we were contacted by Ian Carpenter with the following information "Ernest and Gwendoline Carpenter were my parents. Dad was organist at Ryde Baptist Church for over 50 years and Mum was a member of the choir there and that's how they met. Mum was also an Officer in Ryde Girls' Brigade for several years, latterly based at the URC in Haylands. The grave plot behind theirs is Mum's brother and his wife Bill and Bridget Baker".
Old Website Grave ID: 9262

Inscription:

Book
Left hand side
THE ORGAN
STANDS SILENT
BUT THE MELODIES
PLAY ON

IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
ERNEST
FRANK
CARPENTER
1916 - 2006

HUSBAND, FATHER
AND ORGANIST

Right hand side
IN
LOVING MEMORY
GWENDOLINE
ETHEL
CARPENTER
WIFE AND MOTHER
1927 - 2004

GONE ARE
THE DAYS WE
USED TO SHARE
BUT IN
OUR HEARTS YOU'RE
ALWAYS HERE

Photographs:

Ian Carpenter
E & G Carpenter (contributed by Ian Carpenter in Sept 2012)
Photographer: Ian Carpenter
Rob Cain
G & E Carpenter July 2018
Photographer: Rob Cain

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