Karen Carpenter

Mar 2, 11:31 PM


Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, 1950 – February 4, 1983) was an American singer and drummer. She and her brother, Richard, formed the 1970s duo The Carpenters. Her drumming skills were considerable, but it is for her vocal performances that she is best remembered.
She suffered from anorexia nervosa, a little known disease at the time, and died at the age of 32 from heart failure, later attributed to complications related to her illness.

The Carpenter’s music was something of a fixture on the BYU in the 70s. I shouldn’t surprise anyone that she was baptized a mormon after she died. But we still struggle to understand how she is any more saved by having her work done twice in a month at the same temple in 1992. Or twice in 2 days in 1993. It just doesn’t seem necessary.

Karen Ann Carpenter
Female

Event(s):
Birth:
02 MAR 1950 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
Christening:
Death:
04 FEB 1983
Burial:

LDS Ordinances:
Baptism:
28 OCT 1993 DENVE
Endowment:
03 MAR 1994 DENVE
Baptism:
07 OCT 1992 PROVO
Endowment:
09 OCT 1992 PROVO
Baptism:
29 SEP 1992 PROVO
Endowment:
29 SEP 1992 PROVO
Baptism:
29 OCT 1993 JRIVE
Baptism:
26 APR 1988 SLAKE
Endowment:
30 APR 1988 SLAKE
Sealing to Parents:
15 DEC 2005 MTIMP Harold Bertram Carpenter / Agnes Reuwer Tatam
Baptism:
22 DEC 2004 WASHI
Endowment:
04 FEB 2005 WASHI

— Nom de Cypher

Music,

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Comment

  1. People make mistakes. The database is flush with incomplete data. It has only been within the last few years that is has been computerized. Before that, the data was kept on paper which was not always widely available. That has changed, but still, some mistakes are made. But you bring up a good point. It is being addressesed.

    — JLFuller · Mar 3, 01:37 PM · #

  2. Keeping data on a computer does not make it any more accurate than keeping it on paper. Just easier to access across the globe.

    FamilySearch has been computerized for 10 years, including a major re-launch last fall. It hasn’t kept the well meaning mormons from baptizing Oral Roberts before he died, or re-baptizing Pope John Paul II a few more times.

    Shouldn’t we expect re-baptisms to become rare, now that anyone, anywhere can check for previous work?

    What do you call a mistake that is made intentionally?

    — Nom de Cypher · Mar 3, 03:23 PM · #

  3. Her music and Voice are apart of my life ,thank you karen ,God give you peace ,Greg

    — Greg DiStefano · Aug 13, 08:42 PM · #

  4. You can not baptized someone AFTER they die. They have to go under the water!!!

    — Nancy · Aug 10, 06:11 PM · #

  5. I grew up listeing to the carpenter, and to this day at 47 I still get chills listeing to them i will forever love there music and my children love her as well Love you Karen rest in peace.

    — collen · Nov 8, 10:30 PM · #

  6. Karen Anne Carpenter, (1950 – 1983), drummer singer, bass guitar player; was a Protestant, Methodist. She attended religious services in the Methodist Church in New Haven, Conn. after she was born and for a few years there after until her family moved to California. She was married by Rev. Robert Schuller of the Crystal Catherdral, Garden Grove, Calif. (Hour of Power TV show). The wedding took place in the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Her funeral took place in the Methodist Church in Downey, California. She never was a Mormon. No biography of her has ever referred to her as a Mormon.

    — Bennett Turk · Dec 5, 08:10 AM · #

  7. Karen Carpenter was not baptized a Mormon. This is simply ridiculous.

    — Phil · Dec 23, 10:30 AM · #

 
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