MARBLEHEAD - Louise Johnson Spiess born Wauseon, Ohio September 27, 1919. Died Marblehead, Massachusetts September 1, 2012. Loyal wife of Howard Spiess (deceased 2008) for 69 years, having left Ohio University in 1939 to get married.
Louise was a World War II wife, having seen her husband enlist in the US Marines and then ship out from San Diego in 1944, leaving her at home in Wauseon with two pre school children. She spent the rest of the war there sustained by her father Davis Johnson and her in-laws Orrin and Blanche Spiess and George and Margie Spiess, and sharing her experience with her sister Marian, whose husband Maynard Short, a US Army Captain, landed at Normandy on D Day. Both men survived the war, and Louise became the supportive mother of four children, all of whom survive: Barbara Miller and Gary Spiess of Marblehead, Mary Louise Benda of Exeter NH and Paul Spiess of Amherst, NH. She is also survived by 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, spread from New Hampshire to Seattle/Tacoma, and from Anchorage, Alaska to Charlottesville, Virginia.
Like many people of her generation, Louise shared the mobile and optimistic spirit of her time. She moved several times to accommodate her husband's career, finally settling in Marblehead in 1962. She nurtured and supported her children as a fundamental responsibility, pouring unconditional love and affection on every child, grandchild and great-grandchild. As the last surviving family member of her generation, she also stood as a beacon for nieces and nephews and their children and grandchildren. Her message was clear and simple. Family before everything.
In her early 50s she returned to her interrupted college studies, attending first, North Shore Community College and then Salem State College, earning a bachelor's degree in nursing. She was a nurse at Salem Hospital, and taught nursing for many years at the Salem Hospital School of Nursing and at North Shore Community College, influencing a generation of nursing students. The nursing station at the Intensive Care Unit at the Salem Hospital is named in her honor. After retirement she served as a nurse volunteer at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon New Hampshire.
She was also a devoted member of Saint Michael's Episcopal Church in Marblehead, serving on many commissions and parish guilds, and was active at the Grantham United Methodist Church.
Her large family mourns her passing and seeks to follow her example.
Visiting Hours were held on Tuesday from 6-8 PM in the Eustis & Cornell Funeral Home 142 Elm Street, Marblehead, Ma. Relatives and friends were respectfully invited. Funeral Service and burial was private.
Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Marble-head Female Humane Society, PO Box 425, Marblehead Ma. 01945, or to the Louise E. Spiess Need Based Scholarship Fund at the Salem State Foundation, 352 Lafayette Street Salem, Ma. 01970.
For online guestbook please visit www.eustisandcornellfuneralhome.com.
(Published Thursday, September 13, 2012 in the Swampscott Reporter)
Louise was a World War II wife, having seen her husband enlist in the US Marines and then ship out from San Diego in 1944, leaving her at home in Wauseon with two pre school children. She spent the rest of the war there sustained by her father Davis Johnson and her in-laws Orrin and Blanche Spiess and George and Margie Spiess, and sharing her experience with her sister Marian, whose husband Maynard Short, a US Army Captain, landed at Normandy on D Day. Both men survived the war, and Louise became the supportive mother of four children, all of whom survive: Barbara Miller and Gary Spiess of Marblehead, Mary Louise Benda of Exeter NH and Paul Spiess of Amherst, NH. She is also survived by 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, spread from New Hampshire to Seattle/Tacoma, and from Anchorage, Alaska to Charlottesville, Virginia.
Like many people of her generation, Louise shared the mobile and optimistic spirit of her time. She moved several times to accommodate her husband's career, finally settling in Marblehead in 1962. She nurtured and supported her children as a fundamental responsibility, pouring unconditional love and affection on every child, grandchild and great-grandchild. As the last surviving family member of her generation, she also stood as a beacon for nieces and nephews and their children and grandchildren. Her message was clear and simple. Family before everything.
In her early 50s she returned to her interrupted college studies, attending first, North Shore Community College and then Salem State College, earning a bachelor's degree in nursing. She was a nurse at Salem Hospital, and taught nursing for many years at the Salem Hospital School of Nursing and at North Shore Community College, influencing a generation of nursing students. The nursing station at the Intensive Care Unit at the Salem Hospital is named in her honor. After retirement she served as a nurse volunteer at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon New Hampshire.
She was also a devoted member of Saint Michael's Episcopal Church in Marblehead, serving on many commissions and parish guilds, and was active at the Grantham United Methodist Church.
Her large family mourns her passing and seeks to follow her example.
Visiting Hours were held on Tuesday from 6-8 PM in the Eustis & Cornell Funeral Home 142 Elm Street, Marblehead, Ma. Relatives and friends were respectfully invited. Funeral Service and burial was private.
Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Marble-head Female Humane Society, PO Box 425, Marblehead Ma. 01945, or to the Louise E. Spiess Need Based Scholarship Fund at the Salem State Foundation, 352 Lafayette Street Salem, Ma. 01970.
For online guestbook please visit www.eustisandcornellfuneralhome.com.
(Published Thursday, September 13, 2012 in the Swampscott Reporter)
MARBLEHEAD - Louise Johnson Spiess born Wauseon, Ohio September 27, 1919. Died Marblehead, Massachusetts September 1, 2012. Loyal wife of Howard Spiess (deceased 2008) for 69 years, having left Ohio University in 1939 to get married.
Louise was a World War II wife, having seen her husband enlist in the US Marines and then ship out from San Diego in 1944, leaving her at home in Wauseon with two pre school children. She spent the rest of the war there sustained by her father Davis Johnson and her in-laws Orrin and Blanche Spiess and George and Margie Spiess, and sharing her experience with her sister Marian, whose husband Maynard Short, a US Army Captain, landed at Normandy on D Day. Both men survived the war, and Louise became the supportive mother of four children, all of whom survive: Barbara Miller and Gary Spiess of Marblehead, Mary Louise Benda of Exeter NH and Paul Spiess of Amherst, NH. She is also survived by 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, spread from New Hampshire to Seattle/Tacoma, and from Anchorage, Alaska to Charlottesville, Virginia.
Like many people of her generation, Louise shared the mobile and optimistic spirit of her time. She moved several times to accommodate her husband's career, finally settling in Marblehead in 1962. She nurtured and supported her children as a fundamental responsibility, pouring unconditional love and affection on every child, grandchild and great-grandchild. As the last surviving family member of her generation, she also stood as a beacon for nieces and nephews and their children and grandchildren. Her message was clear and simple. Family before everything.
In her early 50s she returned to her interrupted college studies, attending first, North Shore Community College and then Salem State College, earning a bachelor's degree in nursing. She was a nurse at Salem Hospital, and taught nursing for many years at the Salem Hospital School of Nursing and at North Shore Community College, influencing a generation of nursing students. The nursing station at the Intensive Care Unit at the Salem Hospital is named in her honor. After retirement she served as a nurse volunteer at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon New Hampshire.
She was also a devoted member of Saint Michael's Episcopal Church in Marblehead, serving on many commissions and parish guilds, and was active at the Grantham United Methodist Church.
Her large family mourns her passing and seeks to follow her example.
Visiting Hours were held on Tuesday from 6-8 PM in the Eustis & Cornell Funeral Home 142 Elm Street, Marblehead, Ma. Relatives and friends were respectfully invited. Funeral Service and burial was private.
Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Marble-head Female Humane Society, PO Box 425, Marblehead Ma. 01945, or to the Louise E. Spiess Need Based Scholarship Fund at the Salem State Foundation, 352 Lafayette Street Salem, Ma. 01970.
For online guestbook please visit www.eustisandcornellfuneralhome.com.
(Published Thursday, September 13, 2012 in the Swampscott Reporter)
Louise was a World War II wife, having seen her husband enlist in the US Marines and then ship out from San Diego in 1944, leaving her at home in Wauseon with two pre school children. She spent the rest of the war there sustained by her father Davis Johnson and her in-laws Orrin and Blanche Spiess and George and Margie Spiess, and sharing her experience with her sister Marian, whose husband Maynard Short, a US Army Captain, landed at Normandy on D Day. Both men survived the war, and Louise became the supportive mother of four children, all of whom survive: Barbara Miller and Gary Spiess of Marblehead, Mary Louise Benda of Exeter NH and Paul Spiess of Amherst, NH. She is also survived by 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, spread from New Hampshire to Seattle/Tacoma, and from Anchorage, Alaska to Charlottesville, Virginia.
Like many people of her generation, Louise shared the mobile and optimistic spirit of her time. She moved several times to accommodate her husband's career, finally settling in Marblehead in 1962. She nurtured and supported her children as a fundamental responsibility, pouring unconditional love and affection on every child, grandchild and great-grandchild. As the last surviving family member of her generation, she also stood as a beacon for nieces and nephews and their children and grandchildren. Her message was clear and simple. Family before everything.
In her early 50s she returned to her interrupted college studies, attending first, North Shore Community College and then Salem State College, earning a bachelor's degree in nursing. She was a nurse at Salem Hospital, and taught nursing for many years at the Salem Hospital School of Nursing and at North Shore Community College, influencing a generation of nursing students. The nursing station at the Intensive Care Unit at the Salem Hospital is named in her honor. After retirement she served as a nurse volunteer at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon New Hampshire.
She was also a devoted member of Saint Michael's Episcopal Church in Marblehead, serving on many commissions and parish guilds, and was active at the Grantham United Methodist Church.
Her large family mourns her passing and seeks to follow her example.
Visiting Hours were held on Tuesday from 6-8 PM in the Eustis & Cornell Funeral Home 142 Elm Street, Marblehead, Ma. Relatives and friends were respectfully invited. Funeral Service and burial was private.
Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Marble-head Female Humane Society, PO Box 425, Marblehead Ma. 01945, or to the Louise E. Spiess Need Based Scholarship Fund at the Salem State Foundation, 352 Lafayette Street Salem, Ma. 01970.
For online guestbook please visit www.eustisandcornellfuneralhome.com.
(Published Thursday, September 13, 2012 in the Swampscott Reporter)
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