When Joyce Ann Carpenter was born on 2 June 1956, in Wood, West Virginia, United States, her father, Dallas Austin Carpenter, was 26 and her mother, Wanda Lee Sears, was 25. She died on 2 June 1956, in her hometown, at the age of 0.
English (southern): occupational name for a worker in wood, Norman French carpentier (from Late Latin carpentarius ‘cartwright’).
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Zimmermann , French Charpentier , Italian Carpentieri , or cognates and equivalents in various other languages.
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