OBIT: Ronald SPANGLER, 1989, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  SPANGLER
  
    Dr. Ronald Spangler, 56, founder and chairman of Comprecare in
  1979-82 died Jan. 7, 1989 at St. Anthony Hospital of heart disease. 
  He had offices and resided in the Denver, Colo., area.  Born June 7,
  1932 in Columbus Ohio, he grew up in Pittsburgh. He graduated in 1955
  from Washington and Jefferson College and in 1960 from Temple
  University Medical School.  He was in family practice in Somerset in
  1961-64 then moved to Colorado.  Dr. Spangler was president of the
  Colorado Academy of Family Physicians in 1979-1980 and a diplomat of
  the American Board of Family Physicians.  He also held a bachelor of
  fine arts degree from the University of Colorado at Denver.  He
  married the former Marita Pigossi of Bridgeville on Dec. 31, 1954. 
  He is survived by his wife; five children: Carl, Jennifer, Eric and
  Robert Spangler and Catheryn Hamer; mother, Sarah Ruth Spangler,
  Chapel Hill, N.C.; sister, Janet Kovach, Edison, N.J. and two
  grandchildren. 
  
  Daily American, February 9, 1989
  
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