Beyond Fiction

Lee B. Spangler, 260 S. Church St., yard clerk for the Texas and Pacific Railway here, died Sunday afternoon at 1:40 o’clock at St. Joseph’s Hospital. He had been in ill health the past few months. Employed by the railroad 18 years, he came here from Clarksville 12 years ago.
The funeral service was set for 4 o’clock Monday afternoon at Brown-Roden Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. T. W. Mathis, Baptist pastor at Detroit, with burial in Evergreen Cemetery here. Frank Lytton, T. C. Swint, Craft Graves, Woodrow Reeves, Joe Thomas and Gregory Sallee were named pallbearers.
Mr. Spangler was born Oct. 9, 1899, at Clarksville, son of the late James N. Spangler and wife, now Mrs. W. H. Hands of Bogata. Besides his mother and his wife, the former Miss Beatrice Embree, he leaves three daughters: Mrs. Miller McDaniel, Wichita Falls; Mrs. A. W. Dicken, Paris, and Miss Bettie Spangler, San Antonio; one grandchild and three sisters; Mrs. Houston Hattaway, Yuma, Ariz.; Mrs. Elmer Shoulders, and Mrs. George Winkle, Clarksville.

Taken from The Paris News, November 20, 1944.