Dorothy Olive Marsh
(1905-1985)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Daniel Spiess Jr.

Dorothy Olive Marsh 1 2

  • Born: 19 Mar 1905, Pontiac, Livingston, IL 1 2
  • Marriage (1): Daniel Spiess Jr. on 17 Nov 1921 in La Crosse, LaPorte, IN 1
  • Died: 23 Feb 1985, Valparaiso, Porter, IN at age 79 1 2
  • Buried: 26 Feb 1985, La Crosse: Oak Grove Cemetery, LaPorte, IN 1 2

   FamilySearch ID: 2Q1V-BLS.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Residence: in 1914 in La Crosse, LaPorte, IN. 1

2. Residence: on 11 Feb 1935 in La Crosse, LaPorte, IN. 3

3. Census in 1950 in La Crosse, LaPorte, IN. 4 The 1950 census recorded Daniel Spiess, proprietor of electric applicance store, 53, living with wife Dorothy, machine operator in trousers factory, 45, and daughter Patricia, 15. Daniel was born in Switzerland, Dorothy in Illinois, and Patricia in Indiana.

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4. Obituary: South Bend Tribune: obituary of Dorothy Spiess on 24 Feb 1985 in South Bend, St. Joseph, IN. 1 LACROSSE - Services for Dorothy O. Spiess, 79, of 8 Indiana Ave., who died at 5 a.m. Saturday in Porter Memorial Hospital, Valparaiso, after an apparent heart attack, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the United Methodist Church, of which she was a member. Burial will be in the Oak Grove Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 9 p.m. Monday at the Kosanke Funeral Home, Kouts. Memorial contributions may be made to the church. Mrs. Spiess was bom March 19, 1905, in Pontiac, Ill. She moved to LaCrosse in 1914, coming from Pontiac. On Nov. 17, 1921, in LaCrosse, she married Daniel Spiess. He survives along with three daughters, Mrs. Fred Beecher of LaCrosse, Mrs. Hugh Wright of Hanna, Ind., and Mrs. Carl Barbieri of Granger; 10 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Sue Applegate of South Bend.


Dorothy married Daniel Spiess Jr., son of Daniel Spiess Sr. and Bertha Kellenberger, on 17 Nov 1921 in La Crosse, LaPorte, IN.1 (Daniel Spiess Jr. was born on 4 Apr 1897 in Heiden, Appenzell Outer Rhodes, Switzerland,5 6 died on 15 Jan 1992 in La Crosse, LaPorte, IN 5 6 and was buried on 18 Jan 1992 in La Crosse: Oak Grove Cemetery, LaPorte, IN 5 6.)


Sources


1 South Bend Tribune (South Bend, IN), 24 Feb 1985, page 11. Obituary of Dorothy O. Spiess.

2 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146040516.

3 Ancestry.com, Indiana, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1907-1944, Certificate 6180 Patiricia Ann Spiess, father Daniel Spiess Jr., mother Dorothy Olive Marsh.

4 "1950 United States Census," https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XLJ-SJYW Daniel Spiess La Crosse IN.

5 South Bend Tribune (South Bend, IN), 16 Jan 1992, page 22. Obituary of Daniel Spiess.

6 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146040497.



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