Douglass A. Spencer

Safety-Health
Athletic Director
Cross Country Coach
Assistant Basketball Coach


DOUGLASS A. SPENCER, 73, died Saturday at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne. Born in Andrews, he retired in 1983 from Elmhurst High School. He was a teacher and later worked in administration, retiring in 1983. He was a World War II Army veteran. Surviving are his wife, Marcella; two sons, Brian and Ricki, both of Fort Wayne; two daughters, Maria Taylor of Fort Wayne and Lori Winfrey of Clearwater, Fla.; a stepson, Terry Shelton of Winterhaven, Fla.; a stepdaughter, Roxie Jo Spaulding of Shell Lake, Wis.; 15 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. His first wife, Donna D., died in 1995. Services at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Elzey & Haggard Home for Funeral, 6810 Old Trail Road, with calling from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday and from 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. Burial in Fairview Cemetery, Servia.

[Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Sunday, November 1, 1998, page 12A]