1st wife of Lloyd Leslie Spiker. Daughter of Harry Miller and Carrie Ellen Willoughby
OBITUARY
THE CHARITON LEADER
Chariton, Iowa
Tuesday, January 8, 1929
MYRLE MILLER SPIKER
The death of Mrs. Lloyd Spiker of Williamson, at the Yocom hospital in Chariton, Sunday morning, brought to her host of friends and relatives a sense of real loss. Mrs. Spiker had been a victim of influenza for the past ten days which developed in pneumonia.
Thursday evening it was decided to remove her to the Yocom hospital. The dread disease failed to respond to the skillful treatment of physician and nurses and she gradually grew worse until Sunday morning at 6:20 o'clock, surrounded by her loved ones, she went out and we like to think of her as joining glad hands with her beloved father, the late Harry Miller, who left her only a few short months ago on January 4th, 1927, and for whom she grieved long and deeply.
Elsie Myrle Miller, second daughter of Harry and Carrie Miller, was born near the present site of Williamson, August 30, 1897, and departed this life December 30, 1928. Her entire life has been spent in Lucas county with the exception of one year in childhood, when the family resided in California and one year's residence in Des Moines after her marriage.
Older residents of the community recall with graphic clearness the sweet young girlhood of Myrle, the blossoming into beautiful young womanhood, the assuming of wifehood and later the crowning joy of motherhood.
On June 24th, 1919, she was united in marriage to Lloyd L. Spiker, of English township. Two sweet little girls came to gladden their home, Helen Louise, now aged 7 and Frances Lea, aged 3 and upon them she lavished all the love and skill and ingenuity which were hers.
Next to her home came her church. She united with the Central Christian church at an early age and was never tiring in her devotion to its interests, not to exalt herself but to exalt her Master's cause to it's rightful place in the community life.
As she went about the streets, her smiles and pleasant greetings to all whom she met left a gladness and this genial warmth of nature coupled with rare loyalty and fidelity, not only to family but to friends in all walks of life, endeared Mrs. Spiker to the whole community.
Besides the grief stricken husband and the little daughters, she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Carrie Miller, and an only sister, Mrs. Jessie Greeley, who are left to carry on without the cheer and comfort of the cherished daughter and sister.
She will be sorely missed by her niece and nephew, Wilma and Bernard Greeley, both of whom she was especially fond, her great motherlove reaching out to them as to her own. The sorrow to the immediate family is made doubly sad by the fact that little Bernard was in the same hospital at the time with a serious case of lockjaw, each unaware of the condition of the other.
Many other relatives and friends are left to mourn the loss of this beautiful young wife and mother, whose going seems so untimely and we weep that one so lovely should have a life so brief, but God is good and we must wait for the day when our eyes, now closed, will open and we shall see and know all things.
Funeral services, conducted by Rev. Sam Williamson, of Chillicothe, Mo., a former pastor, were held Wednesday at one p.m. at the Christian church. The large attendance and beautiful floral offerings bore rich testimony of the high esteem in which the deceased was held as well as sympathy for the bereaved ones.
The pallbearers were six young businessmen: E. J. Woolever, D. L. Smith, Francis McDonnell, Raymond Lewis, Geo. Williamson and Herbert Larrington. The music was furnished by Mesdames Edith Edwards and Marcella Beebout and Messrs. Robert and Ralph Stotts and Clyde Byers, with Mrs. Hazel Hartley at the piano. Interment was in the Oxford cemetery.
OBITUARY
THE CHARITON LEADER
Chariton, Iowa
Tuesday, January 8, 1929
MYRLE MILLER SPIKER
The death of Mrs. Lloyd Spiker of Williamson, at the Yocom hospital in Chariton, Sunday morning, brought to her host of friends and relatives a sense of real loss. Mrs. Spiker had been a victim of influenza for the past ten days which developed in pneumonia.
Thursday evening it was decided to remove her to the Yocom hospital. The dread disease failed to respond to the skillful treatment of physician and nurses and she gradually grew worse until Sunday morning at 6:20 o'clock, surrounded by her loved ones, she went out and we like to think of her as joining glad hands with her beloved father, the late Harry Miller, who left her only a few short months ago on January 4th, 1927, and for whom she grieved long and deeply.
Elsie Myrle Miller, second daughter of Harry and Carrie Miller, was born near the present site of Williamson, August 30, 1897, and departed this life December 30, 1928. Her entire life has been spent in Lucas county with the exception of one year in childhood, when the family resided in California and one year's residence in Des Moines after her marriage.
Older residents of the community recall with graphic clearness the sweet young girlhood of Myrle, the blossoming into beautiful young womanhood, the assuming of wifehood and later the crowning joy of motherhood.
On June 24th, 1919, she was united in marriage to Lloyd L. Spiker, of English township. Two sweet little girls came to gladden their home, Helen Louise, now aged 7 and Frances Lea, aged 3 and upon them she lavished all the love and skill and ingenuity which were hers.
Next to her home came her church. She united with the Central Christian church at an early age and was never tiring in her devotion to its interests, not to exalt herself but to exalt her Master's cause to it's rightful place in the community life.
As she went about the streets, her smiles and pleasant greetings to all whom she met left a gladness and this genial warmth of nature coupled with rare loyalty and fidelity, not only to family but to friends in all walks of life, endeared Mrs. Spiker to the whole community.
Besides the grief stricken husband and the little daughters, she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Carrie Miller, and an only sister, Mrs. Jessie Greeley, who are left to carry on without the cheer and comfort of the cherished daughter and sister.
She will be sorely missed by her niece and nephew, Wilma and Bernard Greeley, both of whom she was especially fond, her great motherlove reaching out to them as to her own. The sorrow to the immediate family is made doubly sad by the fact that little Bernard was in the same hospital at the time with a serious case of lockjaw, each unaware of the condition of the other.
Many other relatives and friends are left to mourn the loss of this beautiful young wife and mother, whose going seems so untimely and we weep that one so lovely should have a life so brief, but God is good and we must wait for the day when our eyes, now closed, will open and we shall see and know all things.
Funeral services, conducted by Rev. Sam Williamson, of Chillicothe, Mo., a former pastor, were held Wednesday at one p.m. at the Christian church. The large attendance and beautiful floral offerings bore rich testimony of the high esteem in which the deceased was held as well as sympathy for the bereaved ones.
The pallbearers were six young businessmen: E. J. Woolever, D. L. Smith, Francis McDonnell, Raymond Lewis, Geo. Williamson and Herbert Larrington. The music was furnished by Mesdames Edith Edwards and Marcella Beebout and Messrs. Robert and Ralph Stotts and Clyde Byers, with Mrs. Hazel Hartley at the piano. Interment was in the Oxford cemetery.
1st wife of Lloyd Leslie Spiker. Daughter of Harry Miller and Carrie Ellen Willoughby
OBITUARY
THE CHARITON LEADER
Chariton, Iowa
Tuesday, January 8, 1929
MYRLE MILLER SPIKER
The death of Mrs. Lloyd Spiker of Williamson, at the Yocom hospital in Chariton, Sunday morning, brought to her host of friends and relatives a sense of real loss. Mrs. Spiker had been a victim of influenza for the past ten days which developed in pneumonia.
Thursday evening it was decided to remove her to the Yocom hospital. The dread disease failed to respond to the skillful treatment of physician and nurses and she gradually grew worse until Sunday morning at 6:20 o'clock, surrounded by her loved ones, she went out and we like to think of her as joining glad hands with her beloved father, the late Harry Miller, who left her only a few short months ago on January 4th, 1927, and for whom she grieved long and deeply.
Elsie Myrle Miller, second daughter of Harry and Carrie Miller, was born near the present site of Williamson, August 30, 1897, and departed this life December 30, 1928. Her entire life has been spent in Lucas county with the exception of one year in childhood, when the family resided in California and one year's residence in Des Moines after her marriage.
Older residents of the community recall with graphic clearness the sweet young girlhood of Myrle, the blossoming into beautiful young womanhood, the assuming of wifehood and later the crowning joy of motherhood.
On June 24th, 1919, she was united in marriage to Lloyd L. Spiker, of English township. Two sweet little girls came to gladden their home, Helen Louise, now aged 7 and Frances Lea, aged 3 and upon them she lavished all the love and skill and ingenuity which were hers.
Next to her home came her church. She united with the Central Christian church at an early age and was never tiring in her devotion to its interests, not to exalt herself but to exalt her Master's cause to it's rightful place in the community life.
As she went about the streets, her smiles and pleasant greetings to all whom she met left a gladness and this genial warmth of nature coupled with rare loyalty and fidelity, not only to family but to friends in all walks of life, endeared Mrs. Spiker to the whole community.
Besides the grief stricken husband and the little daughters, she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Carrie Miller, and an only sister, Mrs. Jessie Greeley, who are left to carry on without the cheer and comfort of the cherished daughter and sister.
She will be sorely missed by her niece and nephew, Wilma and Bernard Greeley, both of whom she was especially fond, her great motherlove reaching out to them as to her own. The sorrow to the immediate family is made doubly sad by the fact that little Bernard was in the same hospital at the time with a serious case of lockjaw, each unaware of the condition of the other.
Many other relatives and friends are left to mourn the loss of this beautiful young wife and mother, whose going seems so untimely and we weep that one so lovely should have a life so brief, but God is good and we must wait for the day when our eyes, now closed, will open and we shall see and know all things.
Funeral services, conducted by Rev. Sam Williamson, of Chillicothe, Mo., a former pastor, were held Wednesday at one p.m. at the Christian church. The large attendance and beautiful floral offerings bore rich testimony of the high esteem in which the deceased was held as well as sympathy for the bereaved ones.
The pallbearers were six young businessmen: E. J. Woolever, D. L. Smith, Francis McDonnell, Raymond Lewis, Geo. Williamson and Herbert Larrington. The music was furnished by Mesdames Edith Edwards and Marcella Beebout and Messrs. Robert and Ralph Stotts and Clyde Byers, with Mrs. Hazel Hartley at the piano. Interment was in the Oxford cemetery.
OBITUARY
THE CHARITON LEADER
Chariton, Iowa
Tuesday, January 8, 1929
MYRLE MILLER SPIKER
The death of Mrs. Lloyd Spiker of Williamson, at the Yocom hospital in Chariton, Sunday morning, brought to her host of friends and relatives a sense of real loss. Mrs. Spiker had been a victim of influenza for the past ten days which developed in pneumonia.
Thursday evening it was decided to remove her to the Yocom hospital. The dread disease failed to respond to the skillful treatment of physician and nurses and she gradually grew worse until Sunday morning at 6:20 o'clock, surrounded by her loved ones, she went out and we like to think of her as joining glad hands with her beloved father, the late Harry Miller, who left her only a few short months ago on January 4th, 1927, and for whom she grieved long and deeply.
Elsie Myrle Miller, second daughter of Harry and Carrie Miller, was born near the present site of Williamson, August 30, 1897, and departed this life December 30, 1928. Her entire life has been spent in Lucas county with the exception of one year in childhood, when the family resided in California and one year's residence in Des Moines after her marriage.
Older residents of the community recall with graphic clearness the sweet young girlhood of Myrle, the blossoming into beautiful young womanhood, the assuming of wifehood and later the crowning joy of motherhood.
On June 24th, 1919, she was united in marriage to Lloyd L. Spiker, of English township. Two sweet little girls came to gladden their home, Helen Louise, now aged 7 and Frances Lea, aged 3 and upon them she lavished all the love and skill and ingenuity which were hers.
Next to her home came her church. She united with the Central Christian church at an early age and was never tiring in her devotion to its interests, not to exalt herself but to exalt her Master's cause to it's rightful place in the community life.
As she went about the streets, her smiles and pleasant greetings to all whom she met left a gladness and this genial warmth of nature coupled with rare loyalty and fidelity, not only to family but to friends in all walks of life, endeared Mrs. Spiker to the whole community.
Besides the grief stricken husband and the little daughters, she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Carrie Miller, and an only sister, Mrs. Jessie Greeley, who are left to carry on without the cheer and comfort of the cherished daughter and sister.
She will be sorely missed by her niece and nephew, Wilma and Bernard Greeley, both of whom she was especially fond, her great motherlove reaching out to them as to her own. The sorrow to the immediate family is made doubly sad by the fact that little Bernard was in the same hospital at the time with a serious case of lockjaw, each unaware of the condition of the other.
Many other relatives and friends are left to mourn the loss of this beautiful young wife and mother, whose going seems so untimely and we weep that one so lovely should have a life so brief, but God is good and we must wait for the day when our eyes, now closed, will open and we shall see and know all things.
Funeral services, conducted by Rev. Sam Williamson, of Chillicothe, Mo., a former pastor, were held Wednesday at one p.m. at the Christian church. The large attendance and beautiful floral offerings bore rich testimony of the high esteem in which the deceased was held as well as sympathy for the bereaved ones.
The pallbearers were six young businessmen: E. J. Woolever, D. L. Smith, Francis McDonnell, Raymond Lewis, Geo. Williamson and Herbert Larrington. The music was furnished by Mesdames Edith Edwards and Marcella Beebout and Messrs. Robert and Ralph Stotts and Clyde Byers, with Mrs. Hazel Hartley at the piano. Interment was in the Oxford cemetery.
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