BOB CARPENTER HOME AFTER 6 DAYS IN HOSPITAL FOLLOWING HIS OPEN HEART SURGERY!!!!

 

BOB CARPENTER AND WIFE KAYE WITH FRIENDS ON A CRUISE

BOB CARPENTER, WIFE KAYE, JOHN OLESKY, PAULA TUCKER IN FLORIDA REUNION

                         BOB CARPENTER AND WIFE KAYE

             BOB CARPENTER, "V" SIGN AND FAMILY PET

UPDATE: 

Bob is HOME after 6 days in Fawcett Memory Hospital!

Bob reports:

"I am so humbled by the hundreds of prayer wishes, other comments and posts on Facebook. Still have some rest and recovery at home. FMH staff were awesome. THANK YOU all."

Open heart surgery for Bob Carpenter

Former WKNT radio news director Bob Carpenter will undergo open heart surgery Friday, Sept. 20, to deal with 98% blockage.

Carp posted:

“Dear Friends. I am scheduled for open heart surgery tomorrow morning at Fawcett Memorial Hospital. I've been under cardiology heart care the last 35 years.

“My recent treadmill test showed a problem. I had a heart cath at FMH and have a 98% blockage.

"Carp"

Let’s wish Carp and his wife Kaye of Punta Gorda, Florida, who were married 52 years ago in Ravenna, after Carp’s graduation from Kent State, a happy outcome. I enjoyed my encounters with them in my travels.

Carp and Kaye do a LOT of cruises.

Their son John lives in Los Angeles.

In 2020 Bob had kidney stone shock wave therapy that put him in the hospital for 4 days with internal bleeding!!!

Many of his newscasts and posters about the 1970 Ohio National Guard killings of 4 Kent State students and wounding of 9 others are in the Kent State archives about the unhappy event connected to Vietnam War protests. The “Four Dead in Ohio” outrage helped end America’s participation in the war, which solved nothing and left North Vietnam in charge of all of Vietnam. All those dead Americans for nothing.

Carp’s intelligence work for the Air Force translated a message about a bomb planted at the American embassy in Nicosia. The building was clear, the bomb went off, but no one was harmed in 1964.

Carp got a commendation in person from a general.

He is former executive director of the Punta Gorda Business Alliance and an award-winning public information officer with the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office.

Carp relocated from Kent to Maui in the mid-70s to do radio and public relations before moving to Florida. 

In 2022 Hurricane Ian downed 11 of the trees on their Punta Gorda property with didn’t ding Carp or Kaye.

For years Bob and wife Kaye personally delivered  Christmas gifts to hundreds of challenged children in Beijing, China; Tokyo and Osaka, Japan; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Quito, Ecuador.