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Marj Carpenter, reporter who became Presbyterian head, dies

by Associated Press
| June 15, 2020 4:03 PM

DALLAS (AP) — Marj Carpenter, who pushed international missionary work while briefly leading the nation’s largest Presbyterian denomination in the mid-1990s following a journalism career in West Texas that included covering millionaire swindler Billie Sol Estes, has died. She was 93.

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