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 1915 - 2001 (85 years)
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| Name |
SPANG, John James |
| Born |
14 Dec 1915 |
Sleepy Eye, Minnesota  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
22 May 2001 |
Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota [1, 2] |
| Buried |
Pleasant View Cemetery, Paullina, Obrien County, Iowa [3] |
| Person ID |
I926 |
Bollendorf Spangs |
| Last Modified |
11 Oct 2013 |
| Father |
SPANG, Lloyd Leroy, b. 13 Jul 1890, Coleta, Whiteside County, Illinois , d. Hartley, Iowa |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Mother |
GALLEA, Mae, b. Abt 1893, Minnesota |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Family ID |
F69 |
Group Sheet |
| Family |
SCHULDT, Margaret Helen, b. 01 Jul 1920, d. 20 Oct 1997, Paullina, Iowa (Age 77 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. SPANG, Jon Lloyd, b. 06 Mar 1949, Hartley, Iowa , d. 10 Aug 2002, Alexandria, Douglas County, Minnesota (Age 53 years) |
| | 2. Living |
| | 3. Living |
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| Family ID |
F310 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
John Spang
PAULLINA, Iowa - John Spang, 85, of Paullina died Tuesday, May 22, 2001, at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn.
Services will be 1:30 p.m. Friday at the First Presbyterian Church in Paullina with the Rev. Karl Eckhoff officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant View Cemetery in Hartley, Iowa, with military rites conducted by the American Legion Russell West Post 95 of Paullina. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with the family present 7 to 8 p.m., at the Gaudian-Eldridge Funeral Home in Paullina.
Mr. Spang was born Dec. 14, 1915, in Sleepy Eye, Minn., the son of Lloyd and Mae (Gallea) Spang. He moved with his family to Moneta, Iowa where he received his education and graduated from Moneta High School. He worked in Spencer, Iowa for one year and later in Los Angeles for two years before farming in the Moneta area in 1939.
He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He married Margaret Schuldt on Dec. 11, 1947, in Eagle Grove, Iowa. They farmed in the Hartley, Primghar and Sutherland, Iowa, areas for 12 years.
They moved into Paullina in 1959 where he spent 24 years in the livestock feed business and later worked for the Veterans Affairs Commission.
In 1990 he was appointed Veterans Affairs Executive Director for O'Brien County, retiring in 1998. Mrs. Spang died Oct. 20, 1997, in Primghar.
He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, lifetime member of American Legion Russell West Post 95 of Paullina, where he held various offices. He was manager of the Legion for various activities and served as the Legions Boys State coordinator and was active in the 40 & 8. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Paullina Lions Club, where he served in various offices and was active in the Boy Scouts.
Survivors include a son and his wife, Jon L. and Linda Spang of Mound, Minn.; two daughters and their husbands, Mari Spang Wall and Keith Wall, and Julie and Ralph Aufdenkamp, all of Paullina; five grandchildren, Jonathan, Suzanne and Tyler Spang, Shelby and Rustin Aufdenkamp; three stepgrandchildren, Ira, Everett and Bart Wall; a stepgreat-grandchild; two sisters, Margaret and her husband, Blaine Klingsporn of Worthington, Minn., and Ruth Wells of Minneapolis; a nephew; and a special friend, Evelyn Drennen of Warrenton, Va.
He was also preceded in death by a brother, Ernie; and an infant sister, Audrey Jean.
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| Sources |
- [S998] Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002.
- [S1043] Social Security Death Index, Ancestry.com, (Name: Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010;).
Lists John's date of birth as Dec 14, 1915
- [S1003] Nationwide Gravesite Locator, Department of Veteran Affairs, (Name: Department of Veteran Affairs;).
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