Showing posts with label Liz Carpenter. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Liz Carpenter, Noted Author, Humorist, and Former White House Aide, Dies at Age 89



20 Mar 2010 22:33 Africa/Lagos

Liz Carpenter, Noted Author, Humorist, and Former White House Aide, Dies at Age 89

AUSTIN, Texas, March 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The family of Liz Carpenter announces that Elizabeth "Liz" Carpenter, 89, passed away at 9:15 a.m. (CDT) on March 20, 2010, at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, Texas. The cause of death was pneumonia. Carpenter was born on September 1, 1920 in Salado, Texas.

Carpenter's immediate survivors are a daughter, Christy Carpenter, of New York City, executive vice president and chief operating officer of The Paley Center for Media, a son, Scott Carpenter, a retired Vashon, Washington, community leader, and two grandchildren, The Rev. Les Carpenter of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Bonnie Bizzell of Seattle, Washington.

The LBJ Library is hosting a webpage about the life and legacy of Liz Carpenter at www.lbjlibrary.org/carpenter. This website will have Carpenter's obituary, photographs, archival material, and videos. This information may be downloaded and used by the news media and the public free of charge.

Source: Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation

CONTACT: For Carpenter's family: Paula Stout, +1-650-283-6727,
paulastout@comcast.net; or for LBJ Library website information about Liz
Carpenter: Anne Wheeler of LBJ Library, +1-512-731-2351,
awheeler@lbjfoundation.org
Web site: http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/
http://www.lbjlibrary.org/carpenter