Donald B. Spencer
Donald B. Spencer, 82, 312 S.E. Fourth,
former conductor for the Santa Fe Railroad and later as a brakeman
for Amtrak, retiring after 40 years, died Friday (Dec. 25, 1998) at
Newton Medical Center.
He was born Sept. 5, 1916, in Newton to
John Oliver and Daisy Dean (Bruce) Spencer. He married Gladys O.
Buller April 1, 1937, in Newton. She survives of Newton.
He was a member of First Presbyterian
Church and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and United Transportation
Union. He enjoyed reading. He was associated with the Spencer Dairy
located on South Old Main, starting at the age of 12 and working
there until 1936.
Other survivors include: two sons,
Donald Duane Spencer of Wichita and Richard Bruce Spencer of Emporia;
one brother, Oliver Eugene Spencer of Newton; three sisters, Mary
Isabel Anderson of Chicago, Sally Seery of Newton and Virginia
Rumplik of Young Harris, Ga.; six grandchildren; 11
great-grandchildren; and one step-great-grandchild. He was preceded
in death by his parents; two sons, Gary Spencer and Larry Spencer;
one brother, Robert Louis Spencer; and one granddaughter, Lori Sue
Spencer.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m.
Tuesday at Petersen Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Victor "Randy"
Randle from First Assembly of God in Emporia officiating. Burial will
be in the Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may call until 9 p.m. today
with family greeting friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at Petersen
Funeral Home.
Memorials have been established with
American Cancer Society in care of the funeral home.
