Anita Tribune
January 7, 1965
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RITES HELD FOR HENRY SPIES, 77

Funeral services were held Wednesday morning, January 6 at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic church in Anita for Henry J. Spies, 77.

Father Joseph Devlin officiated. John Legg, a grandson, and Tim Richter served as altar boys; Mrs. Richard Richter was organist.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walker, Mrs. E. J. Osen, and Mrs. Arthur Duff were in charge of floral arrangements.

Casketbearers were Dr. E. J. Osen, Gail Burke, Leo Glynn, Arthur Duff, Harvey Fletcher, and Wilbur Matthews. Honorary bearers were grandsons. Interment was in the Atlantic Catholic cemetery.

Henry J. Spies, son of Lewis and Katie Spies, was born at Cumberland on February 9, 1887, and passed away at the Atlantic Memorial Hospital on Sunday, January 3, where he had been a patient for one day. He had undergone surgery that morning.

He grew to manhood at Cumberland and was married to Florence Anstey on January 18, 1911 at St. Timothy Catholic Church at Reno by Rev. P. J. Casey.

They moved to Massena in 1915 and farmed there until 1941, when they moved to Anita to their present home on Rose Hill Avenue. For the past 10 years he had been employed in the office of Dr. E. J. Osen.

Surviving are his wife, one son, Virgil of Pomona, California; eight daughters, Mrs. Aaron (Muriel) Bell of Anita, Mrs. Ivan (Cleone) Ray of Fort Dodge, Mrs. Cecil (Juanita) Budd of Pearcy, Arkansas, Mrs. Hugh (Ada) Preston of Iowa Falls, Mrs. Howard, (Mary Jane) Lane of Fontanelle, Mrs. Carl, (Marjorie) Benson of Brainerd, Minnesota, Mrs. Al (Georgia) Cowan of Frankfort, Germany, and Mrs. Al (Betty) Shultz of San Antonio, Texas; 28 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren; also three sisters, mrs. Anna Strong and Mrs. Grace Morgan of Waterloo and Mrs. Ida Eberle of Tucson, Arizona.

He was preceded in death by a great-granddaughter, Jill Lane on May 10, 1962 and a brother, Lewis Spies, passed away on December 24, 1964.

Obituary courtesy of JSC findagrave.