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RICHARD DELBERT SPENCER
[The Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 20 May 1940]
Richard Dilbert Spencer, well known and respected insurance agent, passed away yesterday afternoon at his late residence 168 Ross street, after an illness of two years. He was in his 65th year.
Deceased was born in Crowland township, the son of Dr. John G. Spencer, veterinary and Catharine Spencer, and lived practically all his life in this district, with the exception of several years when he was employed in Buffalo as a telegraph officer for the Pennsylvania and B and O railways. He returned to Canada shortly before the first World War and held positions in the Michigan Central and the Canadian National Railway freight off ices before taking over the Canadian National Telegraph agency in Welland in 1914. A short time later he entered the insurance business. Deceased was a Jewel member of Orient lodge, I.O.O.F., and a member of St. Matthew’s Lutheran church.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Myrtle A. Spencer; one son, Richard M. Spencer, Buffalo; four sisters, Mrs. Nancy Robinson, Crystal Beach, Mrs. Velma Myers, Crystal Beach, Mrs. Martha Kelly, Buffalo and Mrs. Mary Stratton, Niagara Falls, N.Y., and three brothers, William N. Spencer and James Spencer, both of Welland and James Spencer, both of Welland; and Orin P. Spencer, of Kenmore, N.Y.
The funeral services which will be under Oddfellows auspices, will be held on Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 o’clock at Sutherland’s Funeral Home, 152 Hellems avenue. Interment will be in the Friends cemetery at Pelham Corners.
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