Obit: Spaulding, Jack (Gerald) #2 (1903? - 1950)

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Surnames: Spaulding, Stoll

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 11/02/1950

Spaulding, Jack #2 (1903? - 25 NOV 1950)

Funeral services for Jack Spaulding, 47, of 5308 Raywood Rd., operations manager of the Morey Airplane Co., Middleton, who died suddenly Wednesday Oct. 25th, 1950, were conducted from the Joyce Funeral Home, Madison.

The Rev. W. D. Heisabeck, pastor of the First Christian Church, officiated. The body was taken to Milwaukee fro cremation.

Mr. Spaulding collapsed about 9 a.m. at the Boscobel airport as he was to take off on a return flight to Madison. He was pronounced dead of cerebral hemorrhage upon arrival at the Boscobel Hospital.

Fritz E. Wolf, Madison, state aeronautics commission operations consultant, and Mr. Spaulding flew to Boscobel Tuesday to show slides of the January Cessna Caravan flight to Guatemala to the Kiwanis club.

During World War II he was chief pilot and chief flight instructor for the Morey Company and served as an instructor in the civilian pilot training school at Madison Municipal Airport.

His wife, Edna, is a linotype operator for the Madison newspapers.

Mr. Spaulding was born in Abbotsford, Wis. He learned to fly at Rice Lake. He was a well known orchestra leader, touring the north and central sections of the state for many years.

The Spaulding were married Oct. 3, 1924, in St. Paul, Minn. They lived in Owen (Clark Co., Wis.), where Mr. Spaulding operated the Idle Hour Theatre and Mrs. Spaulding was employed at the Owen Enterprise. Later they moved to Rice Lake and in 1940 to Madison.

Survivors included his wife; a son Wallace, Silver Springs, Md.; his mother, Mrs. Ella Spaulding, Seattle, Wash.; and a sister, Mrs. Maurita Stoll, Seattle.

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