Spencer - William Park
Source: Tri-County News June 14, 1956
Word was received here this week of the sudden death of
William Parke SPENCER, a former Waveland resident who died Monday
June 11, 1956 in Kansas City, Missouri where he had lived the
past 11 years. Mr. Spencer was the son of Charles W. and Martha
Frances (Inge) Spencer and was born July 11, 1894 at Marshall,
Indiana. He was a graduate of Waveland HS in 1914 and attended
Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio where he was a member of
Sigma Pi Fraternity. After his service in WWI, he became a
partner with his father and brother in the hardware and lumber
business on Jan 1, 1919. On Oct 3, 1927 he and Miss Mae
Vandervoir of Terre Haute were married, making their home in
Waveland until 1937 when Parke accepted a position with Barker
Roofing Company locating in St. Joseph, Michigan. For the past 11
years they have lived in Kansas City, where Parke was plant
manager and salesman for the LR Fray Roofing Company. In November
1949, Parke and Robert Gillespie, a nephew purchased the Smith
& Duckworth Lumber Yard in Crawfordsville, selling his
interest in the business here to his brother. He was a member of
the Masonic Lodge of Waveland; Scottish Rite at Kansas City and
American Legion and attended the Congregational church at Kansas
City. Surviving are his wife, Mae Vandervoir Spencer, a son,
Charles; 3 sisters, Miss Bertha Spencer of Waveland; Mrs. Fern
Gillespie of Lebanon; Mrs. Vera Lingeman of Crawfordsville; one
brother, Lowell of Waveland and 5 nephews. Funeral services are
to be held today Thursday at the Machledt Funeral Home at 2:30
with burial in Roselawn Cemetery, Terre Haute. - transcribed by kbz