last name per wife’s Social Security Application
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 @ancestry
Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Original data: Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007.
Name: Sara Allison Bray
[Sara Allison Brong] [Sara Carpenter]
Gender: Female; Race: White
Birth Date: 18 Apr 1917
Birth Place: Olyphant, Pennsylvania
[Olyphant Lac??, Pennsylvania]
Death Date: 10 Sep 2003
Father: Richard Bray
Mother: Margaret Hodgson
SSN: 197051956
Notes: Mar 1937: Name listed as SARA ALLISON BRAY; Oct 1943: Name listed as SARA ALLISON BRONG; : Name listed as SARA BRONG CARPENTER; 16 Sep 2003: Name listed as SARA B CARPENTER

full name per wife’s OBIT
OBIT SaraBrayCarpenter2003.pdf
The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, Indiana)
12 Sep 2003, Fri
Page 22
Sara A Bray Brong Carpenter
86, Indianapolis, formerly of St Cloud, FL, passed away 10 Sep 2003. She was a homemaker. Mrs Carpenter was a member of Calvary Baptist Church, 200 Sunset Blevd, Greenwood, 46141 to which memorial gifts have been suggested tot he building fund. Services will be at 7pm Friday, Sep 12 at Singleton Communtity Mortuary and Memorial Center, with calling from 5pm until service. Interment: Valley View Cemetery, Montdale, PA.
Survivors include her husband S Wharton Carpenter whom she married 21 Mar 1969,
daughter Beth Ann Ferguson, Indianapolis;
son Ervin Carl Brong, Peckville, PA;
step daughter Jane Swartz, Wrightsville, PA
7 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren
She was preceded in death by her husband Homer Carl Brong on 3 may 1953