Spencer - Martha Milligan
Source: Waveland Independent newspaper, Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana Sept. 21, 1923
Mrs. Lowell Spencer, who has been ill for several weeks, died on Monday night about half past ten. Funeral services at the home on Wednesday afternoon at three were in charge of Rev. J.T. Boyer, assisted by Rev. J.B. Johnson. Burial at Maple Ridge. The following obituary was read: Martha Virginia Milligan, daughter of Ed T. and Carry Kerr Milligan was born Feb 27, 1895, departed this life Sept 17, 1923. Blest with a Christian father and a mother whose serene faith all knew, whose memory remains as an inspiration to the Church and community, she was brought-up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Early in life she professed her faith in Christ and united with the Waveland Presbyterian Church; and by her gentle, sweet-spirited life bore testimony that she was a true disciple of the Lord. She graduated from Waveland HS in 1914. She was a student for two years in DePauw Univ, and for one year in the John Herron Art Institute of Indianapolis. On March 10, 1921 she was united in marriage to James Lowell Spencer of Waveland. To this union was born a son, Harold Milligan, who with her husband and father survives. In the departure of Mrs. Spencer there is a loss, not only to home, loved ones and friends, but to the Church and the entire community, which will be very deeply realized as the days go by. Her cheerful smiles, her friendly greetings, her genuine sympathies will be missed by all classes of people in this community. In the gladness of life's bright morning, the loved and loving friend, daughter, wife, mother, has entered the gates ajar where the many mansions be. In the midst of the years of her young womanhood, rich in blessing, full of promise, when earth ties are strongest, when the world and its joys are most inviting, the Master called our friend to her heavenly home where mother awaited her coming. In that ancient day when the precious box of alabaster was broken there were some who questioned, "Why this waste?" So today when this precious earthen vessel is broken that the immortal spirit, more precious than ointment poured forth might honor the Christ who redeemed her, there are those who still say, "Why this waste? There is no waste in God's house. Even as man converts into higher uses the atoms with which he is continually dealing, so God converts into higher uses the souls so full of promise which he takes unto himself. "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for him that love him." Those present from a distance were: Mr. & Mrs. Charles Kerr; Mr. & Mrs. Guy Kerr and sons, Samuel and Fletcher and daughter, Isabel; Mr. & Mrs. Carl Quiggle and son, Charles; Mr. & Mrs. John Kerr; Mr. & Mrs. Merl Marlatt; Mr. & Mrs. RL Parnell; Mrs May Ogle; Mrs. Lizzie Dagger; Mrs. Alta Shultz/ Mr. & Mrs. Fred Palin and son, Carl, all of Newtown; Mr. & Mrs. Enoch Leath of Attica; Mrs. Frances Leander of Macomb, Ill; Mrs. Ruth Merill of Bloomfield; Mrs. Tom Houlihan and son, Fred of Crawfordsville; Mr. & Mrs. Mort INge and son, Donald; Mr. & Mrs. George Spencer; Mrs. Fred Sturgeon and Corwin Garwood of Russellville; Mr. & Mrs. Harry Gillespie and son, Robert of Lebanon; Miss Vera Spencer of Oxford,Oh; Foster Glover of Crawfordsville; Floyd Yeager of Greencastle, Miss Margaret Beruce of Indianapolis. -- kbz