Audrey taught in rural schools in Boyd County, and eventually the Lynch
Public School until she married Fred.
Fred, a trucker, owned one of the first trucks in Boyd County. They had
two children, Carl, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Joyce of Rockwall, Texas.
During WWII, Fred was the air raid warden on the north side of Lynch. Fred and
Audrey operated a dairy that served Lynch.
In 1945 they moed to a farm nin miles northeast of Lynch. He was a
continuous recipient of Boyd County Soil Conservation awards. Audrey started
teaching agin in 1954 and retired from the Lynch Public School in 1973. She
continued her college education and graduated from Wayne State College in 1965.
They moved back to Lynch in 1982.
FRED SPENCER
Fred was born on a farm 7 miles northeast of Lynch on February 17, 1906.
Fred's mother, Lillie Jane, died of tuberculosis when he was two, and his
sister, Marjorie, was one. Fred farmed with his dad, Joe Spencer. As a
teenager he followed the wheat harvest from Texas to Canada with his cousins,
Albert and Lloyd Spencer. Although he was the youngest, he always handled the
money.
On May 29, 1930, he married Audrey Craig, daughter of Harold Craig and
Gratia Foster. She had lived only a few miles from Fred, and was teaching in
the Lynch public schools at the time they were married. They had three
children: Chester, who was stillborn, Carl born in 1934, and Joyce born in
1936. Fred, a trucker, owned one of the first trucks in Boyd County. During
the drought and depression of the 30th the cattel would hear his truck coming
from Sioux City 15 miles away and start lowing because they knew feed was
coming.
During World War II they operated a dairy that supplied milk products for
the town of Lynch. They bought a farm nine miles northeast of Lynch, and moved
there in 1949. His work in soil conservation work won him yearly awards. In
1958 Fred bought one of the first ski boats in the Lynch area. There was a
time when most of the people around Lunch who knew how to water ski had learned
behind his boat. He used to say that when he was down on the Missouri he could
forget the corn was burning up on the hill. They moved back to Lynch in 1982.
Fred died July 1, 1983, and is buried in Highland Cemtery. From the Boyd
County Soil Conservation.
Marjorie May Spencer was born May 2, 1907 at Lynch, Nebr. and passed into
the great beyond after a lingering illness, June 27, 1937 at the age of 30
years, 1 month and 25 days. She was married to Ralph W. Ridgley June 18, 1926.
To this union two children were born, Richard Lloyd ten, and Ronald Ray eight.
Marjorie has spent practically all of her life in this community and has
won for herself a place a place the hearts of all of us that no one else can
ever fill. Expecially do we appreciate her when we remember her mother died in
1908 when she was but 18 months old. Too much cannot be said of her kind and
loving disposition. To complain of difficulties was unknown to her. We have
all witnessed the sunshine of her life an dhave been cheered by her smiles.
Although she was departed this physical life, she will ever continue to live
with us. Nothing, not even death can take her away. We as her friends and
loved ones, are going to carry on as we feel she would like to have us do.
She attended the Lynch High School four years and graduated with the class
of 1925. Later she taught school one year in Holt Co.
She leaves to mourn he rloss her husband, her two sons, a very loving
father, Joe Spencer, one brother, Fred, two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Ruth Davy and
Mrs. Audrey Spencer, one brother-in-law, Earl Ridgley and many other relatives
and friends.
Funeral services were conducted from the Lynch Methodist Church on Tuesday,
June 29th at 2:00 p.m., with Rev. Lewis of Lynch officiating. A quartet
composed of Faye Bare, Zoe Darnell, W. T. Alford and Earl Landholm accompanied
at the piano by Miss Dorothy Hewitson, sang "No Night There", In the Garden",
and "The Old Rugged Cross", The pall-bearers were: Floyd Haun, Rollin Hiatt,
John Haun, Jess Hiat, Ray Haun and Glenn Davy. The flower girls were three
class mates: Eva Woolf, Grace Mannen, Ethel Sedlacek and two friends, Neva
Wolfe and Lucille Keeler. The pall bearers were five cousins, John, Ray and
Floyd Haun and Roland and Jesse Hiatt, and a life-long friend, Glenn Davy. The
burial was made in Highland Cem. Relatives and friends attending from a
distance were Mrs. Jake Shawler, Riverside, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. M.A. Yokum,
Mrs. Dorothy Austin and daughter, Marion, Portland, Oregon, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Haun, Redfield, So. Dak., Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Ridgley, Burwell, Neb., Mr. and
Mrs. H.J. Davy Lyman, Neb. and Rhea Heuerman, Mitchell.MARJORIE MAY SPENCER
Fred's sister Marjorie was born May 2, 1907. She graduated from Lynch H.S.
and taught school in a Holt rural school. She married Ralph W. Ridgley, June
18, 1926. They had two children, Richard and Ronald. She died after a
lingering illness, June 18, 1926. She is buried in the Highland Cem., north of
Lynch, Neb.