B. W. 'Wayne' Carpenter
May 11, 2004

B.W. 'Wayne' Carpenter CORALVILLE, Iowa #45;- B.W. 'Wayne' Carpenter, 83, Coralville, died May 11, 2004, at the University of Iowa Hospital, Iowa City. Memorial services are 2 p.m. Sunday, May 16, at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Iowa City. The Rev. Mark Martin will officiate. After the service, family and friends will gather from 3-5 p.m. at the University Athletic Club, Iowa City, to share in a time of visiting and reflecting upon his life. A private burial will be held separately. Bentley Funeral Home, Wilton, is handling the arrangements. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be directed to the Muscatine Area Council on Youth Leadership, to the University of Iowa Foundation for the University of Iowa Carpenter Family Athletic Scholarship Fund or the B.W. 'Wayne' Carpenter Leadership Endowment Fund for the benefit of the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics. He was a 1939 Marion High School graduate whose life was built around formative experiences from his upbringing #45;- having county home residents as playmates throughout childhood; starting a full regimen of farm chores; to help the family keep the farm through the depression, at around age 13, working with his mother to dress and sell chickens in town every Friday evening; playing football for the Marion Indians in his senior year; and starting to fly, in Piper Cubs, in McBride's pasture during high school. After a year at Iowa State University, he served his country through World War II, first at the War Production Board and later in the Army Air Corps. Upon his discharge from the service, he married Eileen May Schenken, a 1942 Marion High graduate. Together they had a son, David, and a daughter, Nancy. Subsequently he survived his second wife, Harriet Brown Carpenter, and was happily married to Carol Jean Carpenter at the time of his passing. He and Carol maintained a home in Paradise Valley, Ariz., in addition to their home in Coralville. His business life has been built around heavy construction and quarrying, initiated by his first post war job with the James W. Bell Company, and banking. Ultimately he built a quarrying operation, Wendling Quarries Inc. which, through various acquisitions and mergers, at one time or another quarried in approximately 100 different sites in Eastern Iowa. He was one of the principals, from 1979-1997, of a group which owned and operated the University Athletic Club, a semi-private fine dining facility in Iowa City. Additionally, during the 1970s, he developed a registered purebred Brown Swiss dairy herd, which grew to 100 milking head, still active today under different ownership. Finally, at the time of his death, he chaired C-B-G Inc., a bank holding company which commenced with the 1970 acquisition of Wilton Savings Bank, and which now owns banks with locales in Wilton, Muscatine and Columbus Junction. He has long been active in various civic and industry groups, serving long directorships, including time as either chairman or president, of Southeast Iowa Junior College in Burlington, Iowa Blue Cross/Blue Shield, the Iowa Limestone Producers Association and the Iowa Scholarship Fund. Additionally, he served as a volunteer on various philanthropic committees, including the Hawkeye Horizon Steering Committee, the Carver-Hawkeye Arena National Committee, the Medicine Campaign National Steering Committee and the Friends of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He was most recently a very active supporter of the National Council on Youth Leadership, both at the national level and as the principal benefactor of a local chapter, the 5-year-old Muscatine Area Council on Youth Leadership. He was an honorary University of Iowa Letterman. Survivors include his wife, Carol; a son, David of Iowa City; a daughter, Nancy Leahy and husband, Tim; grandsons, Evan and Brian Leahy; a stepson, Matthew Myren and wife, Margaret, and their sons, Nate, Gregory and Christopher; and a stepdaughter, Molly Myren and her children, Chloe, Jack and Liaden.

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