Obituaries (Sp, St)

 MHD Collection

 

Greene [Chenango Co., NY]:  Joseph Spanle died at his home on Jackson street Wednesday night.  Mr. Spanle has conducted a barber shop in this village for the past 25 years or more.  He had been a great sufferer for about 10 weeks.  He is survived by his wife. Mrs. Eva Harrington Spanle and one son Benjamin Spanle.  The funeral was held from the late home this afternoon at 2 o'clock.  Rev. Percy T. Olten officiated.  Burial was in Sylvan Lawn Cemetery [Greene, NY].  [MHD notation:  d. 1913]

 

Irving Spencer, 83, of 29 Way Street, died at 7:10 p.m. Saturday.  He is survived by a brother, the Rt. Rev. Robert M. Spencer, D.D., of Kansas City, Mo., a nephew, Ward Spencer of Pittsfield, N.Y.; three nieces, Mrs. Clarence Merrill of Greene, Mrs. Frank Weeks of Binghamton, and Mrs. Louis DeYoung of Kansas City.  The body was removed to the George H . Scholderer Home for Funerals, 269 Chenango Street, where friends may call today and Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m.  Funeral arrangements will be announced later.  [MHD notation:  June 7, 1947]

 

Miss Minnie Springstein, 68, of 35 St. Charles Street, Johnson City [Broome Co.,  NY], died at 1:35 p.m. Tuesday in the Binghamton City Hospital.  She is survived by a niece, Mrs. Margaret Thurston and a nephew, Winfred Springstein.  The body was removed to the Ivan A. Barber & Son Funeral Home, 428 Main Street, Johnson City, where friends are invited to call 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday.  [MHD notation:  Mar. 6, 1944]

 

His Last Words

 

To the mother, father and friends of little Edmund James Stack, whose soul took the wings of the morning, May 9, 1900, aged six years, these verses are respectfully, aye, affectionately, as a mother, inscribed.

A little boy but six years old,

Lay dying one spring day;

His mother sat his bed beside,

And often did she pray.

That God would spare to her the child,

He was so bright and fair,

The dawn of wisdom in his eyes;

The sunshine in his hair.

 

"Oh! kiss me, mamma," once he said,

She pressed his forehead high;

"Kiss me again," unsatisfied.

It seemed so strange to die.

Then "Mamma kiss my hand," he cried,

She did with streaming tears,

Then held his hand at his request,

Within her own--for years?

 

It seemed so long and yet so short;

How wondrous moments fly!

When we are bidding each farewells,

When loved ones come to die!

"Oh! I must leave you, mamma dear,"

"I'm going now, good-bye."

"So far, so swift, wilt follow me?

"Yes Edmund, I will try."

 

"This way or that, which shall I go?"

"I do not know," sighed he,

Then in a joyful tone, he cried.

"Oh! yes, I see! I see!"

He waved his right hand in farewell;

That little hand so weak.

Then fell asleep beneath the spell,

That death laid on his cheek.

 

But oh! he left the proof of this,

By these last words he said.

There is a world beyond of bliss,

Where none are ever "dead."

The angels came for him and bore

Him happy, glad, away;

He saw the fair, the golden shore,

Where he for years would play.

 

An angel guards his tiny tomb,

Where his pure body lies;

There let the sweetest flowers bloom,

Akin to paradise.

Oh! there the wind will sink to rest,

And there the birds will sing,

It tis a sacred spot and blest,

Beyond all earthly things.

 

The funeral of Mrs. Belle Johnson Stannard who died at her home, 126 Chapin street, last night, will be held at her home Monday morning.  There will be a prayer service at 11 o'clock and the funeral service will be held at 1 o'clock at Glen Castle Church.  Burial will be in Glen Castle Cemetery [Binghamton, Broome Co., NY].  [MHD notation:  Dec. 1912]

Frank Stanard, 75, of 20 Sturges Street and formerly of Page Brook [Chenango Co., NY], died Saturday night at the Binghamton city Hospital, after a long illness.  He is survived by his wife, Fanny; three sisters, Miss Flora Stanard of Homer, Mrs. Stella Purington of Manlius and Mrs. Clara Wade of New York City, and two nephews, Lester Stanard of Homer and Louis Wade of Syracuse.  [MHD notation:  Jan 23, 1943]

After a long illness, Nettie E., wife of Elmer E. Stanard died last night at their home, 282 Clinton street, aged 28 years.  She is survived by her husband and two children, Lynn N. and Helen May; her father, Nelson Spencer of Tunnel, and three brothers, Guy C. and Irving of Tunnel, and Robert W., of Kansas City.  The funeral will be held at the house at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, and burial will be at Tunnel [Broome Co., NY] on Sunday morning.  [MHD notation:  d. May 1909]