Re: James Virgil SPIRES
SPIRES, ORR
Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email) In Response To: James Virgil SPIRES (Cheryl Spires Duerr)
Date: 8/22/2010 at 16:18:13
Here is James Virgil Spires' obituary
Former Eagle Grove Man Dies in Canada
EAGLE GROVE, IA —James Virgil Spires, 52, farmer, former resident of Eagle Grove, died at his farm home in Osage, Saskatchewan, Canada, Thursday. The body was sent to Wilson at Eagle Grove and services in charge of the Rev. A. S. Kilbourn of the Congregational church were held at the Wilson chapel Wednesday. Burial was made in the Troy cemetery. The pallbearers were: Ab Wilcox, Milton Hopkins, Bert Craig, Al Stryker, Thomas Humphrey and Mason Doughton.
Mason City Globe-Gazette, Iowa
October 5, 1939*******************************
James was married to Amy Etta Orr on 16 February 1910, Troy Township, Wright County, Iowa) son of Henry Thomas Spires and Isabella Rebecca Elliott; James Spires, born in Jacksonville, Illinois;
His date of birth (from WWI draft registration and date of death from obituary) are:
December 12, 1886 -- September 28, 1939
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