Rowdy Lee Carpenter Strong

GRANBURY -- Rowdy Lee Carpenter Strong, 33, went to be with the Lord, Friday, August 27, 2004 in Granbury. Funeral: 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 1, at Turfgrass America Farm in Granbury. Burial: Evergreen Cemetery in Lipan. Visitation: 6-8 p.m. ,Tuesday at White's Funeral Home in Weatherford. Rowdy Lee Carpenter Strong was born July 30, 1971 in Palestine. He graduated from Peaster High School in 1990. At the young age of 33, Rowdy has accomplished all of his life long goals. He followed in the footsteps of his grandfather W. J. "Dub" Collier and his uncle, Nolan Fish and became a truck driver and farmer. He first became a long-haul truck driver in 1994. The last three years he farmed at the Turfgrass of America farm in Granbury, serving as the assistant farm manager. Rowdy and his wife, Kayla have been devoted to each other for 14 years and to their three children. He honored his father and mother, Judy and Tom Carpenter in the way that he lived his life. There was never a more kind and loving husband, son, brother, nephew, uncle, cousin and loyal friend. Rowdy accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior July 18, 1984 and is alive and well with Him in Heaven forever more. Survivors: Wife, Kayla Strong; children, Daria Cheyanne, Coy Allen, Austin Cordell; parents, Judy and Tom Carpenter of Weatherford; sisters-in-law, Jessica Dearman of Lipan, Renee Anderson of Georgetown, Tammy Fredrickson of Manchester IA; sisters, Jolene Thompson of Weatherford, Gina Brock of Whitt, Mary Rupczewski of Erie, PA; mother-in-law, Debbie Freeman of Lipan; nieces and nephews, Sierra, Taylor, and Colton Dearman, Christian Thompson, Brennan and Ryann Brock, Emily and Leiah Rupczewski, Chaston Anderson, Elizabeth and Jonathan Fredrickson; grandmother, Jane Blackburn of Abilene; aunts and uncles, Polly and Nolan Fish of Clovis, NM, Carolyn and Donald Holiday of Conroe, Jeff Collier of Fayetteville, AR, Sandy and Joel Brooks of Weatherford, Kandy Gaines of Abilene; and loved by family and friends too numerous to mention.