I introduced you to my parents a few days ago. Today, I would like to offer you the obituary for my father, David Isaac Spangler.
David I. Spangler, 71, 2360 E. Price St., died Thursday, April 13, 2000, at Christus St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 15, at Gene Roden’s Sons Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Tom Caulk officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation will be from 7-8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Mr. Spangler was born Nov. 12, 1928, in Clarksville to David Franklin and Ora Elizabeth Gamble Spangler. He had served in the Army and was a member of The Lighthouse Church.
Surviving are his wife, Patricia; daughters, Davelyn Lubbeck of Mesquite, Kimberly Wise of Paris, and Susan Pascua of Mesquite; sons, Charles Spangler of Mabank, Robert Spangler of Paris and Kenneth Spangler of Balch Springs; a sister, Ora Irene Bennett of Queen City; 14 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins. He was preceded in death by his parents and four sisters.
(From The Paris News – April 15, 2000)
I can’t count the number of times I wish he were here to ask about situations. You think you would get used to him being gone but that doesn’t happen.