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Agnes Carpenter was born on March 5, 1915 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She was married to Harold Carpenter. She died on October 1, 1996 in Downey, California, USA.
The Carpenter siblings were both born at Grace–New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, to Harold Bertram Carpenter (1908–1988) and Agnes Reuwer (née Tatum, 1915–1996). Harold was born in Wuzhou, China, moving to Britain in 1917, and the US in 1921, while Agnes was born and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland.
His wife Agnes, meanwhile, saw California as the perfect place for their son to start his professional musical career in earnest. According to " Little Girl Blue," the 13-year-old Karen was left out. She did not want to leave New Haven and felt that her family was dragging her along for the ride.
Carpenter, whose son and daughter formed one of the most popular musical acts of the 1970s, The Carpenters, died Sunday in Downey, Calif., after a long illness. She was 81. During World War II,...
In the morning Agnes called to her to come downstairs, but there was no answer. She went up and found Karen dead on the floor of the walk-in closet. As was later determined, Karen had been taking massive doses of ipecac syrup for some time, a drug used to induce vomiting.
Agnes Carpenter was born on 5 March 1915 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She was married to Harold Carpenter. She died on 1 October 1996 in Downey, California, USA.
In the biography Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter, author Randy Schmidt revealed that Agnes, Karen and Richard Carpenter's mother, favored the piano prodigy brother, Richard, over Karen.
Agnes Carpenter, Karen and Richard’s strong-willed and hateful mother (among her many other winning qualities, she was very demonstratively not a fan of African-Americans or Jews), emerges as the...
Yet, as Dr Lucy O’Brien explains in a biography which takes much the same path as Randy L Schmidt’s occasionally footnoted Little Girl Blue: The Life Of Karen Carpenter, Agnes is one...
Agnes Carpenter is shown to be a difficult, obsessive-compulsive and cold woman towards her daughter. She greatly favored her son at the expense of her daughter, never giving Karen the credit she deserved for the Carpenters' success.