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Glen Dahling Spacht

10 Jun 1886 – 30 May 1962

Birth10 Jun 1886
Death30 May 1962
CemeteryMount Hope Cemetery
Sargent , Custer County , Nebraska , USA
Added byTerry Wilmoth -Jepsen on 17 Jul 2011
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35977355

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His obituary reads: Glen Dahling Spacht, 75, died Wednesday, May 30 in Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona from injuries suffered in a car accident May 19. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, June 3 in the First Methodist church in Sargent with Rev. Ivan Springer officiating. Mrs. Bert Amos and Mrs. Wm. McNiel sang, and Miss Nancy Brown was organist. Active pallbearers were Leon Samuelson, Randall George, Noble Johnson, Earl Hoffmeyer, Carleton Hutchins and William Osterlund. Honorary pallbearers were Dwight Davisson, Francis Eckhoff, LaVern Garten, Jim Wilsman, Emmett Britt, Lee Carey, Harold Long, Chester Beck and William Smith. Interment was in Mount Hope Cemetery. Rhoad Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Mr. Spacht was born June 10, 1886 at Sargent to Mr. and Mrs. John Karl Spacht. His parents were among the early Sargent settlers, coming from Pottstown, Pa. to Seward in a covered wagon and on to Sargent in 1883 where they operated a general store for a number of years. He attended Sargent schools and grew to manhood in the Sargent community. On October 17, 1909, he was married to Grace Brumbaugh at Taylor. They were in the hotel business for 45 years, operating hotels in Sargent, Broken Bow, Kearney and Franklin. In 1955, they retired and moved to Phoenix, Arizona. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1959. Mrs. Spacht died in 1960. He had been a member of the Volunteer Fire Department and also was a member of the Sargent town board. Mr. Spacht served as mayor in Franklin for eight years. He was also a member of United Commercial Travelers of Hasting, and the B.P.O.E. Lodge, Grand Island. Survivors include his daughter, Mrs. Mildred Gilsdorf, granddaughter, Gwendolyn Gilsdorf, Phoenix, Arizona, brother, Jay D. Spacht, Snyder, New York, sister, Mrs. Linda Carroll, Los Angeles, California, and a niece, Mrs. Maxine Robertson, Chandler, Arizona. Besides his wife, he was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and a son.

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