When Earnest Eli Spencer was born on May 17, 1916, in Valparaiso, Indiana, his father, Clair, was 25 and his mother, Anna, was 28. He had one brother and one sister. He died on April 1, 1993, in Hammond, Indiana, at the age of 76, and was buried there.
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