OBITUARY
W. M. Spencer
Dies Aged 91
Had Youthful
Zest For Life
Filled with a youthful zest for liv-
ing to the last, ninety-one year old
Washington M. Spencer, Hayes Cor-
ner, died Saturday afternoon. He
was buried from the Richard Disque
Funeral Home on Monday, Rev.
William Heapps, Dallas Methodist
Church, officiating. Interment was
in Wardan Cemetery.
Mr. Spencer was recovering slow-
ly from Broncho-pneumonia con-
tracted in November, when he was
' stricken with a heart ailment and
hospitalized at Nesbitt for a week
in mid-May. “Give me my pipe and
get me out of here,” was his char-
acteristic reaction to being confined
in a hospital bed. He died two
weeks after returning home, happy
to be among his own family and
mentally alert to the last.
Nobody could have savored living
more than Mr. Spencer. He loved
it all, the grey days as well as the
sunny, and up until a year ago he
made his own way to Dallas, a rug-
ged individualist who enjoyed going
his own gait and being beholden to
nobody, taking an easy gait with
his cane and delighted to see his
friends at the Post Office.
Two brothers are left of the fam-
ily. of six, Horace, 85, and Lewis,
the youngest, a bare 80.
He was two years old when the
Civil War came to a close, the son
of original settlers John W. and
Irene Hall Spencer. In 1935 he and
his wife, the former Persis Hilbert,
celebrated their golden wedding.
She died in 1948.
A carpenter by trade, retired
these past twenty years, Mr. Spen-
cer served for ten years as custod-
EDITH MAZONKEY
ment exercises Wednesday night,
to Success.”
Academic course, she will enter
September, majoring in music.
JANET CORNELL
taking as her subject ‘Stairways
Pennsylvania State University in
starting when the new building was
erected. Boys and girls of that era,
now fathers and mothers of grown
sons, remember with affection that
he used to lend them his creaking
Model T. Ford for trips to Dallas.
That same Ford went back and
forth to Florida, and on innumer-
able fishing trips with his wife.
“The Mayor of Hayes Corner” en-
joyed hunting and tramping, and
primitive living in a tent. Going
into winter quarters on Center Hill
Road with his daughter Marie of
late years, he could scarcely wait
for spring to come and return to his
own home at Hayes Corners.
Five children survive: Leo and
Marie, Hayes Corners; Mrs. C. R.
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CIRCUS
York; Edward H., Rochester. There
are a host of grandchildren and
greatgrandchildren.
Pallbearers were Richard, Russell,
and Harry Spencer, Harold Fred-
erici Carl Soltishik, and Donald
Hilbert.
William R. Hammer
Buried At Oaklawn
William R. Hammer, 83, was bur-
ied in Oaklawn Cemetery yesterday
afternoon, Rev. Arthur B. Mayo,
Trucksville Methodist Church, con-
ducting services from the home on
Carverton Road. Mr. Hammer died
Monday evening, following a stroke
suffered four days previously.
A native of Minersville, son of the
late Thomas and Mary Davis Ham-
mer, he spent most of his life in
the Valley, moving to Trucksville
ten years ago to make his home
with his daughter, Mrs. Earl Hess:
He retired in 1936 from the Steg-
maier Brewing Company.
In addition to his daughter, he
is survived by one grandson, Wil-
liam Hess. His wife, the former
Mary Lloyd, died in 1934.
Judge George W. Folta
Dies Of Heart Attack
Friends and neighbors of Mrs.
Daniel Shaver, Shavertown, were
grieved to hear of the death of her
brother-in-law, U. S. District Judge
George W. Folta, aged sixty, in
Juneau, Alaska this week. He died
of a heart attack at the home of his
daughter while his wife was in
Seattle, bringing their youngest son,
Richard, student at the University,
home for the summer vacation.
Both Dick and his sister, Mrs.
Rainier, attended school in Shaver-
town while Alaska was so endan-
gered during World War II. -
Other survivors are his wife, the
former Ruth Coles of Washington
D. C. and George Jr., a naval officer
in the Pacific.
Slavery was abolished in the U.
S. by the 13th Amendment to the
constitution in 1865.
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Anna Helfrich
Passes Away
Heart Attack
Cause Of Death
Mrs. Anna M. Helfrich, Dallas,
was laid to rest in the parish ceme-
tery, Shavertown, Wednesday mor-
ning, following a mass of requiem
at St. Nicholas Church, Wilkes-
Barre. Pallbearers were Delbert
Price, William and Jack Maley, Carl
E. Mehm, Arthur and Raymond
McCarthy, Francis Steinkirchner,
and Ned Owens. ~
Mrs. Helfrich, 70, died of a heart
attack shortly after midnight Satur-
day night, attended by the daugh-
ter Mrs. George Cave with whom
she made her home for the past two
years. She had steadily failed in
health since the death of her hus-
band, the late William E. Helfrich
February 1, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Helfrich owned and
operated the Dresden Catering Ser-
vice, which now passes to Leonard,
the eldest son.
Mrs. Helfrich was born in Glen
Lyon, daughter of the late Joseph
and Crescentia Harringer Gitterly,
and lived in Wilkes-Barre until
moving to Dallas. She belonged to
St. Nicholas Church and its so-
cieties.
She is survived by these children:
Leonard J., Wilkes-Barre; Louis S.,
Shavertown; Mrs. Mary Schwallen-
berg, Roselle Park, N. J.; William
E., Wilkes-Barre, Mrs. Cave, Dallas;
nine grandchildren and three great-
grandchildren; a stepsister, Mrs.
Michael Garrity, Wilkes-Barre; step-
brother, Louis McHugh, California.
Patricia McNeel Husted
Mr. and Mrs. William Husted,
East Hampton, Conn., announce the
birth of a daughter, Patricia Louise,
weight eight pounds and one ounce
May 28. This is the couple’s first
child. Mrs. Husted is the former
Mildred McNeel, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William McNeel, Parrish
Street.
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RICHARD SORCHIK
Jurner, Noxen.
Orpha Randall
Dies Aged 93
Oldest Long Term
Carverton Resident
Mrs. Orpha Randall, 93, oldest
long-time resident of the Carverton
area, died Tuesday evening at her
home on Randall Hill after a short
illness, following a period of gradual
decline. Mrs. Randall will be buried
from her home tomorrow afternoon,
with services conducted by Rev.
Robert Wood, and interment in
Eaton Cemetery, Orange.
Widow of the late George B.
Randall, who died twenty-one years
ago, Mrs. Randall lived in Randall
Hill for sixty-eight years. She was
born in Lockville November 1, 1861,
four years before the close of the
Civil War, daughter of the late
Benjamin and Ellen Sickler.
There are no lineal descendants.
She had a number of nieces and
nephews, two of whom, Mr. and
Mrs. Cecil Sickler, shared a home
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June Colwell
Going Abroad
Will Teach Air
Force Children
daughter of Mrs.
principal of Dallas
Borough Elementary Schools, will
leave for England this summer,
where she will be employed by the
U. S. Air Force as a teacher in the
first and second grades.
June is a graduate of Dallas Bor-
ough High School, Class of 1949,
and of College Misericordia where
she majored in Elementary Educa-
tion. She taught one year in West-
field, New Jersey, and one year in
Columbus, Ohio. She applied to the
U. 8S. Government for an overseas
teaching job and has been alerted
to be ready to leave any time after
July 15th.
Rebekahs Plan Sale
Lady Toby Rebekah Lodge 514
plans a Parcel Post Sale at Trucks-
ville Fire Hall June 22. David Bligh
Dancing School will entertain. Re-
freshments will be on sale.
with her.
June Colwell,
Louise Colwell,
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