- Date Of Birth: November 8, 1927
- Date Of Death: September 29, 2022
- State: New Mexico
Mamie Arcele Carpenter Andersen was born on November 8th, 1927 in Superior, Nebraska to Jesse James Carpenter and Mamie Hoffman Carpenter. She passed away on September 29th, 2022. She was raised on a dairy farm. After graduating from Superior High School, she taught country school for three years. On August 15th, 1948 she married a local farmer, Elmer Walter Andersen of Ruskin, Nebraska. They had two daughters, Penny Lee and Jean Marie. In august of 1956 they moved to Farmington, New Mexico. She was preceded in death by her husband, Elmer, in 2014. She has lived at the Beehive in Farmington since 2015.
