Nettie's Obituary

This is the newspaper obituary of my great grandmother, Nettie Dorothy Graham Spohr:

"Nettie Spohr

Mrs. Nettie (Graham) Spohr, 72, of 1621 Fourth St., Madison, a lifelong resident of the Quad-Cities, died Tuesday morning May 13 at St. Joseph Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Spohr was visiting with her son, Carl Spohr Jr. and his family in Prairie Village, Kan., and was stricken with an apparent heart attack. She was taken by ambulance to the hospital where she died a short time later.
She was employed at Glik’s Department Store for 42 years and was still working on a part time basis as a sales clerk.
Mrs. Spohr attended the First United Presbyterian Church in Granite City.

Her husband, Carl Spohr, died June 20, 1979 and she also was preceded in death by a sister Susan Osborne.
Other survivors include three brothers John and Clifford Graham both of Granite City and Kenneth Graham of Florrisant, Mo.; four sisters, Mrs. Florence Spohr and Mrs. Fred (Pearl) Bright, both of Madison, Mrs. Cora Davis, Arleta, Calif., and Mrs. Earl (Bernice) Williams, ____, Colo.; four grandchildren ____ grandchild.
____ call after 4 p.m. today at ____ Home, 501 Madison ____ where funeral services ____ 1 p.m. Friday, May 16. ____ in St. John Cemetery, ____.”

Nettie Dorothy Graham Spohr’s newspaper obituary is in the possession of Beverly Monk Spohr of Lee’s Summit, Missouri as of 2005. The newspaper clipping is from an unknown newspaper and has a section at the bottom of the article torn off – hence all the blanks at the end of the article.