Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Ren Onnis Spencer, 1926
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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SPENCER, REN ONNIS
(4 Mar 1926, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
R. O. Spencer, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Spencer, living 2 miles east of
Canute (Washita County), met with a tragic death Tuesday evening about 4
o'clock when a team which he was driving ran away.
Mr. Spencer and his father were in the field going after a load of feed
when the team became frightened and started to run.  The elder Spencer was
thrown out of the back end of the wagon, but the younger man was thrown
forward, alighting on the doubletrees, where he must have been held, as
the team ran toward the house.  When the team arrived near the house the
wagon struck a tree and the team broke loose.  Mrs. Spencer ran to the
wagon and found her husband dead, one side of his head being terribly
crushed.
R. O. Spencer was married and the father of three children, a pair of
twins and a younger child.  He was 22 years old, and lived in a new house
on the same farm with his parents.
The body was brought to Grubitz & Son, undertaking parlor, and prepared
for burial.
(18 Mar 1916, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Ren Onnis Spencer was born in Bowie, Montague County, Texas, April 4,1904;
died near Canute, Oklahoma, March 9, 1926, aged 21 years 11 months and 5
days.
He was married to Miss Lucille Bennett Nov. 24, 1923.  To this union was
born three children; twins - Glen and Gwendolyn on Oct 19, 1924, and
another son, James Paul, Dec. 12, 1925.
He leaves to mourn his going a wife and three babies; father and mother,
Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Spencer, two brothers, Walter Spencer, and Emmett E.
Matthews, and one sister, Mrs. R. B. Cowherd.  All of them live in or near
Canute.  He also left a host of friends.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. W. S. Vanderhoofven of Wakita,
Okla.  The body was laid to rest in Canute Cemetery (Washita County),
Wednesday, Mar. 10, 1926, by Grubitz and son.

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