SPENCER "Spence" HUNT STIMLER

Born: September 4, 1923 Foley, Benton, Minnesota

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Education:

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Marriage:

Education:

Rupert George Stimler
Viola Alleane Hunt

Grade School: Foley, MN
High School: Buffalo, MN
Graduated 1941
College: Univ. of Minn.
1949 BEE

U.S. Navy: Nov. 1942 - Feb. 1946
Submarine Service
Pacific Theater
Rank ETM 1c

Evelyn Isabelle Moad Rogers
Sept. 19, 1946
Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri
by Rev. George T. Baity

University of Minnesota
Graduated December 1950

Children:	Sherry Lynn Stimler	June 5, 1953
	Robert Dean (Rogers) Stimler	Dec. 11, 1938
	(son of Evelyn)	Adopted 1949

Divorced:	February 1969
	Los Angeles City, California

2nd Marriage:	Marie Marion Greenelsh (née Householder)
	Mar. 20, 1970
	Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada

Vocation:

Worked for one company for 32 years. Started as Sales Engineer in 1950 with Master Electric of Dayton, Ohio in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1958, Master Electric merged with Reliance. Worked for Reliance in Minneapolis until promoted to District Manager, and transferred to Milwaukee, in 1982.

Avocations:

After retiring, moved to Bend, Oregon. Played golf and fished. Sold our place in 1986 and bought a fifth wheel which we lived in until 1994. Bend, Oregon in the summers and Palm Desert in the winters where I worked in the golf shop of Santa Rosa Country Club. Retired from retirement in 1998 and moved to Santa Maria, California, our present residence.

Notes:

At the time of the April 19, 1930 census, Spence was 6 years old and living with his parents and six siblings in their

own home valued at $1,500 ($15,000 in 2001 dollars) in Foley Village, Minnesota. The family owned a radio. His father was working as a mechanic in a garage. Spence was attending school at the time.

At the time of the Apr. 27, 1940 U.S. Federal census, Spencer was 16 years old and living with his parents and eight siblings ranging in age from 18 to 5 years in a house rented for $16/month in Buffalo, Wright, Minnesota. His father had completed his education through his junior year of high school, and his mother had completed three years of college. He and all his siblings were attending school with the exception of Junior and his youngest sibling, five-year-old brother Gilbert. Junior had never attended school. In April 1935 the family had been living in a rented house in Benton County, Minnesota. His father was employed as an auto mechanic in a garage; he had worked 26 weeks and was unemployed for 7 weeks in 1939, earning $750 that year.

In the 1942 Minneapolis city directory, Spencer is listed as a defense worker residing at 5009 Abbott Avenue S.

His wife, Marie, and he celebrated their thirtieth wedding anniversary in November, 1999. Marie had three sons, Bill, Jerry and Jeff. Between them they have five children, 16 grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.