per Mommie: Homer died in a horrible explosion at a Dupont? factory

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

1940FCI United States Federal Census Pennsylvania Lackawanna Olyphant 35-114; image 27 of 36 @ancestry
Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: Olyphant, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania; Roll: m-t0627-03526; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 35-114
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.
Name: Richard Bray; Respondent: Yes
Home in 1940: Olyphant, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania
House Number: 403
Farm: No
Inferred Residence in 1935: Olyphant, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Resident on farm in 1935: No
Sheet Number: 14A
Number of Household in Order of Visitation: 385
House Owned or Rented: Rented
Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 0
Household Members:
Richard Bray 63
Margaret Bray 57
Homer Brany 26
Sarah Brany 22
Charlotte Lewis 1 granddaughter