Timothy D. Carpenter, son of Robert and Evelyn Carpenter, was born in Huntington and is a graduate of Huntington High School, Marshall University and the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science. The director in charge at Klingel-Carpenter Mortuary in Huntington, Carpenter has worked with the Marshall University Forensic Science Center and was successful in starting the first DNA preservation after embalming in the country. The program has 218 funeral homes participating.
Carpenter also works with families suffering from loss and designs seminars, such as Help for the Holidays. He also founded the area's first service center for eye and ear collection as a regional transfer point for tissue and bone needed in transplant surgery in 1986. For that work, he was awarded the Leonard Jarrett Award and the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award from the West Virginia Lions Sight Conservation Foundation in 1987.
For his more than 4,000 hours of community service, he received the President's Volunteer Gold Service Award from the United States Council of Service and Civic Participation in 2004. Carpenter also has served on boards or as an officer for many organizations including Rotary Club of Huntington; Pastoral Counseling Board; Red Cross Foundation; National Parliamentarian Association; B.P.O. Elks Lodge 313; General Lewis Chapter Sons of the American Revolution; Huntington Lions Club; Contact of Huntington; Prestera Foundation; Hospice of Huntington; City of Huntington Fire Civil Service Commission; Who's Who Listing Young Men of America; Paul Harris Fellow -- Rotary; and the City of Huntington Foundation, Inc.
