Mrs. Ethel (Pate) Spencer

Danville Commercial News March 16, 1983

Mrs. Ethel Spencer

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Lakeside Funeral Chapel for Mrs. Ethel Spencer, 95, a former resident of 116 W. Bridge St. She died at 2 pm Tuesday (March 15, 1983) at the Vermilion Manor Nursing Home. She had been a resident there since Jan. 14, 1980.
The Rev. Phillip Button will officiate. Burial will be in Spring Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home, with Eastern Star services at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Educated in Tilton, Ill.schools, she was a member of the First Congregational Christian Church were she active in Social Union, Willing Workers groups and also worked with the Cradle Roll.
She was a 50-year member of Order of Eastern Star Iris Chapter 307, receiving her 50 year pin in September 1976. She was a past member of YWCA and member of Entre Norus Group of Senior Citizens.
She enjoyed her home, family, church, friends and flowers.
Born June 30, 1887, a half mile west of Tilton, she was a daughter of William and Henrietta Smallcomb Pate. She was married March 15, 1910, in Springfield, Ill. to Norman Spencer, who died May 8, 1962.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Prince (Margaret) O'Herron of the Central Park community south of Danville; a grandson __________________ of Tilton; and twin great-grandsons.
She was preceded in death by two daughters in 1915.