ARNOLD L. SPURLOCK

The News-Sentinel [Fulton County, In.]

April 24, 1986

                Arnold Lee SPURLOCK, 80, Rt. 3, Monticello, died at 11 p.m. Tuesday at his home.

                He was born Aug. 18, 1905 in Rochester to Mallie Lee and Viola HARTMAN SPURLOCK.  He was married Dec. 12, 1953 to Dorothy SADENWATER, who survives.  He had lived in Monticello since June 1963.  He attended Purdue University, and had worked for 30 years in the experimental division of South Bend Studebaker Corp.; five years at Westinghouse Corp., in Kansas City, Mo., and two years as vice president of a manufacturing plant in Columbus, Ohio.  He was a retired U.S. Army major, serving during World War II in Italy and the Philippines.  He also served as battalion commander of the South Bend National Guard.  He was a member of the Retired Army Officers Association, Monticello United Methodist Church, South Bend Masonic Lodge and Scottish Rite, Aladdin Temple of Columbus, Ohio; the National Rifle Association, of which he was an official referee, and was a former member of the White County Shrine Club.

Surviving with the wife are two daughters, Dorothy BAILEY and Janet BARTCHARD, both of Fresno, Calif.; a son, Kenneth [SPURLOCK], Seal Beach, Calif.; a brother, Harold [SPURLOCK], Warsaw; three sisters, Ina TIRRELL, South Bend; Nina MCGOWEN, Argos, and Gladys HARMON, Peru; nine grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.  A brother preceded in death.

                Memorial services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Monticello United Methodist Church Chapel with the Rev. Donald JOHNSON officiating.  The cremated remains will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D.C.  The Miller-Voorhis Funeral Home, Monticello, is in charge of arrangements.  Memorials may be made to the Shrine Crippled Children’s Fund or Monticello United Methodist Church.