CENOTAPH . . . the marker shown here is located in the IOOF Cemetery in Rockdale, Milam County, Texas, next to the markers for George's uncle and father . . . but the following excerpt from his Iowa obituary states that burial was actually in the Silver Ridge Cemetery in Nebraska . . .
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George O. Spain, of Sioux City, Iowa, was born in Giddlings, Lee County, Texas to George and Velma (Thornton) Spain. In elementary school, he was a classmate with members of the 1970 graduating class of Rockdale High School, where he was known as Oliver. He lived in a small white frame house on Wilcox Street, and would walk to the elementary school, which was about a block away.
He was baptized in 1964; enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1970; and married Kim Abbott in 1984. Upon his retirement in 1993, they moved to Sioux City, where George was employed with Bomgaars before going to work at Wells Dairy where he retired in 2008.
George's pastymes included fishing; bull riding and bareback riding while in the military in Germany and Alabama; riding his Dyna Wide Glide with his brother and sisters-in-law, going to Texas and riding the Hill Country to Luckenbach and Bandera. After attending a NASCAR race, he became an addict of stock-car racing. He was a newly-confirmed member of First Lutheran Church, Kingsley, and was also a member of the Wasmer American Legion Post 241, and the American Legion Riders 241 of Le Mars.
He passed away at his residence with family around him following a courageous battle with brain cancer. Burial was at Silver Ridge Cemetery, Ponca, Nebraska, following a military graveside service conducted by Wasmer American Legion Post 241 of Le Mars, Iowa. The Rohde Funeral Home, Kingsley, Iowa, was in charge of funeral arrangements.
George was preceded in death by his father, George O. Spain, Jr.; paternal grandparents, George O. Spain and Elsie Baccus; maternal grandfather, Ray Thornton; uncles, Roland Cotton Lovelace, Gene Thornton and Lawrence Thornton; aunt, Lucille Thompson; father-in-law, Wayne B. Abbott; brother-in-law, Rick Abbott; and a loving Springer Spaniel, Katie.
FYI . . . much of this info was extracted from the lengthy obituary in the Sioux City Journal.
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George O. Spain, of Sioux City, Iowa, was born in Giddlings, Lee County, Texas to George and Velma (Thornton) Spain. In elementary school, he was a classmate with members of the 1970 graduating class of Rockdale High School, where he was known as Oliver. He lived in a small white frame house on Wilcox Street, and would walk to the elementary school, which was about a block away.
He was baptized in 1964; enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1970; and married Kim Abbott in 1984. Upon his retirement in 1993, they moved to Sioux City, where George was employed with Bomgaars before going to work at Wells Dairy where he retired in 2008.
George's pastymes included fishing; bull riding and bareback riding while in the military in Germany and Alabama; riding his Dyna Wide Glide with his brother and sisters-in-law, going to Texas and riding the Hill Country to Luckenbach and Bandera. After attending a NASCAR race, he became an addict of stock-car racing. He was a newly-confirmed member of First Lutheran Church, Kingsley, and was also a member of the Wasmer American Legion Post 241, and the American Legion Riders 241 of Le Mars.
He passed away at his residence with family around him following a courageous battle with brain cancer. Burial was at Silver Ridge Cemetery, Ponca, Nebraska, following a military graveside service conducted by Wasmer American Legion Post 241 of Le Mars, Iowa. The Rohde Funeral Home, Kingsley, Iowa, was in charge of funeral arrangements.
George was preceded in death by his father, George O. Spain, Jr.; paternal grandparents, George O. Spain and Elsie Baccus; maternal grandfather, Ray Thornton; uncles, Roland Cotton Lovelace, Gene Thornton and Lawrence Thornton; aunt, Lucille Thompson; father-in-law, Wayne B. Abbott; brother-in-law, Rick Abbott; and a loving Springer Spaniel, Katie.
FYI . . . much of this info was extracted from the lengthy obituary in the Sioux City Journal.
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CENOTAPH . . . the marker shown here is located in the IOOF Cemetery in Rockdale, Milam County, Texas, next to the markers for George's uncle and father . . . but the following excerpt from his Iowa obituary states that burial was actually in the Silver Ridge Cemetery in Nebraska . . .
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George O. Spain, of Sioux City, Iowa, was born in Giddlings, Lee County, Texas to George and Velma (Thornton) Spain. In elementary school, he was a classmate with members of the 1970 graduating class of Rockdale High School, where he was known as Oliver. He lived in a small white frame house on Wilcox Street, and would walk to the elementary school, which was about a block away.
He was baptized in 1964; enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1970; and married Kim Abbott in 1984. Upon his retirement in 1993, they moved to Sioux City, where George was employed with Bomgaars before going to work at Wells Dairy where he retired in 2008.
George's pastymes included fishing; bull riding and bareback riding while in the military in Germany and Alabama; riding his Dyna Wide Glide with his brother and sisters-in-law, going to Texas and riding the Hill Country to Luckenbach and Bandera. After attending a NASCAR race, he became an addict of stock-car racing. He was a newly-confirmed member of First Lutheran Church, Kingsley, and was also a member of the Wasmer American Legion Post 241, and the American Legion Riders 241 of Le Mars.
He passed away at his residence with family around him following a courageous battle with brain cancer. Burial was at Silver Ridge Cemetery, Ponca, Nebraska, following a military graveside service conducted by Wasmer American Legion Post 241 of Le Mars, Iowa. The Rohde Funeral Home, Kingsley, Iowa, was in charge of funeral arrangements.
George was preceded in death by his father, George O. Spain, Jr.; paternal grandparents, George O. Spain and Elsie Baccus; maternal grandfather, Ray Thornton; uncles, Roland Cotton Lovelace, Gene Thornton and Lawrence Thornton; aunt, Lucille Thompson; father-in-law, Wayne B. Abbott; brother-in-law, Rick Abbott; and a loving Springer Spaniel, Katie.
FYI . . . much of this info was extracted from the lengthy obituary in the Sioux City Journal.
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George O. Spain, of Sioux City, Iowa, was born in Giddlings, Lee County, Texas to George and Velma (Thornton) Spain. In elementary school, he was a classmate with members of the 1970 graduating class of Rockdale High School, where he was known as Oliver. He lived in a small white frame house on Wilcox Street, and would walk to the elementary school, which was about a block away.
He was baptized in 1964; enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1970; and married Kim Abbott in 1984. Upon his retirement in 1993, they moved to Sioux City, where George was employed with Bomgaars before going to work at Wells Dairy where he retired in 2008.
George's pastymes included fishing; bull riding and bareback riding while in the military in Germany and Alabama; riding his Dyna Wide Glide with his brother and sisters-in-law, going to Texas and riding the Hill Country to Luckenbach and Bandera. After attending a NASCAR race, he became an addict of stock-car racing. He was a newly-confirmed member of First Lutheran Church, Kingsley, and was also a member of the Wasmer American Legion Post 241, and the American Legion Riders 241 of Le Mars.
He passed away at his residence with family around him following a courageous battle with brain cancer. Burial was at Silver Ridge Cemetery, Ponca, Nebraska, following a military graveside service conducted by Wasmer American Legion Post 241 of Le Mars, Iowa. The Rohde Funeral Home, Kingsley, Iowa, was in charge of funeral arrangements.
George was preceded in death by his father, George O. Spain, Jr.; paternal grandparents, George O. Spain and Elsie Baccus; maternal grandfather, Ray Thornton; uncles, Roland Cotton Lovelace, Gene Thornton and Lawrence Thornton; aunt, Lucille Thompson; father-in-law, Wayne B. Abbott; brother-in-law, Rick Abbott; and a loving Springer Spaniel, Katie.
FYI . . . much of this info was extracted from the lengthy obituary in the Sioux City Journal.
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