Mary Spangler
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - December 13, 1918
Mary Spangler
Miss Mary Spangler, daughter of Mr. and Mr[s]. L .W. Spangler, died at her home in Red Cliff last Monday morning of Spanish influenza after an illness of one week. The news of her death was received with extreme sorrow at Eagle and Gypsum, where she had spent, the greater part of her life, and expressions of heartfelt regret were heard on every hand that she should he picked as one of the victims of the dreaded plague.
Mary Spangler was a young lady of unusual ability, of a sweet and winning disposition, ambitious, and endowed with a brilliant mind; and had she lived the usual length of life would have risen well above the level of human attainment. She was born at Boulder, Colorado, August 13, 1899, and came to Eagle county when her parents moved here from Cripple Creek some fourteen years ago. She grew to young womanhood on her father's homestead near Gypsum, attended the Eagle County high school, and, when she moved with her parents to Red Cliff three years ago, attended the high school there. For more than a year she had been assistant in the dental office of Dr. O. W. Randall, and proved to be a very adept helper to the Doctor in the practice of his profession. She liked the profession so well that she had decided to make it her life work, and had planned for next year to take a course in dentistry at Boston, Mass., in one of the leading institutions of the country. She was a young woman of most affable disposition, whom to know intimately was to love dearly. Her death is truly one of the great sacrifices which this county has made to the seemingly uncontrollable epidemic which is sweeping the country.
Besides her many friends, she leaves her father and mother, a sister, Miss Laura Spangler, two brothers, Walter and Albert, who reside at Salida, Colo., and a brother, Geo. Spangler, who is Somewhere in France with the United States Army, to mourn her untimely death.
The body was taken to Boulder where it was laid to its last rest.
