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Family of Wyatt Alvin SPENCER and Frances Bernice ROWELL
Wyatt Alvin SPENCER b. 1910 Mar 22825 at Bangor, ME825. d. 1985 Nov 85282 at Rapides General Hospital, Alexandria, VA5282. bd. Greenwood Mem Park Cem, Pineville, LA840.
Frances Bernice ROWELL b. 1916 May 13825 at Bradley, ME825. d. 2007 Apr 392 at Lebanon, NH636. bd. Mt Hope Cem, Bangor, ME636.
Married2317 1949 Jan 30 at Maine. Maine Marriages2317 provides entries for the marriage of Wyatt A Spencer to Frances Rowell, and Frances Pratt. The same database provides an entry for the marriage of Frances Rowell and Edward Pratt.
Wyatt's middle name is listed825 in his birth record. In 1930, Wyatt was a lineman for a power company. In 1940, he was a stock clerk for a power company. It appears that Wyatt and Blanche were divoced sometime after 1940, at which time Wyatt and Blanche were listed2496 as husband and wife, and before 1944, when Wyatt is listed on his WWII enlistment record170 as "single with dependents." At the time of daughter Patricia's marriage3058 to Gerald Morton, Wyatt was an electrician.
Wyatt A Spencer, "of Pineville," died5282 at the age of 75 in Rapides General Hospital in Alexandria, LA. He was a WWII Army veteran and received the Purple Heart. That obituary mentions that he was preceded in death by his wife, Blanche Ellis Spencer. He was survived by sons Stanley and Bud Spencer, both of Bangor, Maine; a daughter, Patricia Luttgeharm of Pineville; brothers Albert and Charles Spencer of Veazie, Maine; sisters Mary Spencer Vanidestine (Bangor, Me), Isabelle Spencer King (Veazie, ME), and Ethel Spencer (Tucson, Ariz.; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Frances married2317 first Jul 6, 1933, in Maine, Edward H Pratt of Milford, ME. In 1940, Frances and Edward resided4194 in Milford, ME. Edward was a carpenter. They had (at least) 2 children: Rose Eleanor and Edward H Jr. In that 1940 census, Rose and Edward Jr are both listed as age 1; they are assumed to have been twins. The Mt Hope Cemetery (Bangor, ME) interment record636 for daughter Rose Eleanor (Pratt) Glidden lists her mother as "Frances Bernice (Rowell) Pratt."
Frances married third (unknown) Treadwell, indicated by her Social Security Index Entry and Mt Hope Cemetery (Bangor, ME) interment record, both of which have Frances Treadwell with the same birthdate coinciding with the birthdate of Frances Rowell.