Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....SPENCE, Clara (Monk) April 6, 1962 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Amy Hedrick http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003209 May 22, 2009, 1:55 am The Brunswick News; Friday 6 April 1962; pg. 14 col. 6 MRS. CLARA SPENCE DIES AT HOSPITAL Mrs. Clara Monk Spence died at the Brunswick hospital today after an extended illness. Mrs. Spence resided with her daughter, Mrs. Flora Wilkins, on St. Simons Island. Funeral plans and a complete list of survivors will be announced later by the Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home. Interment will be in Arlington, Va. The Brunswick News; Saturday 7 April 1962; pg. 12 col. 6 FUNERAL TOMORROW FOR MRS. SPENCE Funeral services for Mrs. Clara Monk Spence, who died yesterday, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the St. Simons Methodist Church with the Rev. Oscar Bell officiating. The body will be sent to Arlington, Va., for interment in the Arlington National Cemetery beside that of her husband, the late Lt. Col. Robert E.L. Spence. Survivors are one daughter, Mrs. Flora Wilkins, St. Simons Island; one son, James B. Pickren, St. Simons; two sisters, Miss Ethel Monk and Mrs. Nannah Murrah, both of Tallahassee, Fla.; eight grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Active pallbearers will be Bruce Faircloth, William H. Roebuck, I.W. Cousins, Jr., Charles J. Snook, III, Dr. John H. Shumate, Jr., and Robert Spence Pickron. Additional Comments: More Glynn County Genealogy & History can be found at