Irene Romain (Doll) Spahr (1910 - 1987)

Born 4 Aug 1910 in West Manchester Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Morgan Eugene Spahr — married 26 Feb 1938 in York, Pennsylvania, United States

Died 3 Apr 1987 at age 76 in Hellam Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States

Biography

Irene (Doll) Spahr has German Roots.

Irene (Doll) Spahr was a Pennsylvanian.

Irene, only child of Walter J. Doll and Sarah Ann "Sallie" Zartman, was born 4 August 1910 in West Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania.^[1][2] Nine-year-old Irene remained in West Manchester in 1920 in the home rented by her parents Walter J. (age 31, cigar maker) and Sarah Doll (31).^[3]

By 1930, Walter J. (age 41, cigar maker) and Sarah (41) owned a home near Bair's Station in West Manchester Township, where they resided with their daughter Irene R Doll (19, silk weaver) and Irene's twice-widowed, paternal grandmother Ida M. Glatfelter (66).^[4]

On 26 February 1938 in York County, she married Morgan Eugene Spahr,^[5] son of William Jessie Spahr and Emma Spangler.^[6] They had at least three children.^[7]

Soon after their wedding Morgan E. (age 22, farm operator) and Irene R. Spahr (29) rented a residence in Jackson Township, York County, which, in 1940, they shared with their one-year-old daughter and a widowed, retired farmer named Jacob W. Burgard (75).^[8] All three adults had completed eight years of schooling.^[8]

Irene died 3 April 1987 in Hellam Township, York County^[1] and was buried at Holtzschwamm Cemetery in Paradise Township, York County.^[2]

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} United States Social Security Death Index, database, FamilySearch (21 August 2020), Irene Spahr, Apr 1987; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 14 September 2020), memorial page for Irene Romain Doll Spahr (1910–1987), Find A Grave: Memorial #25191557, citing Paradise Holtzschwamm Lutheran Church Cemetery, Thomasville, York County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by bill brick (contributor 46930687).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} United States Census, 1920, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 19 January 2020), Irene Doll in household of Walter J Doll, West Manchester, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing ED 108, sheet 5B, line 97, family 105, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1668; FHL microfilm 1,821,668.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} United States Census, 1930, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 19 January 2020), Irene R Doll in household of Walter J Doll, West Manchester, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 83, sheet 6B, line 98, family 127, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2166; FHL microfilm 2,341,900.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 19 January 2020), Irene R Doll Spahr, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States, 05 Apr 1987; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (2014); citing, born-digital text.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 14 September 2020), memorial page for Morgan Eugene Spahr (23 Jan 1914–20 Dec 1994), Find A Grave: Memorial #25181102, citing Paradise Holtzschwamm Lutheran Church Cemetery, Thomasville, York County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Harry Senft (contributor 46798826). The memorial includes an obituary from the York Daily Record (PA) published on Wednesday, 21 December 1994.
7. ↑
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} United States Census, 1940, database with images, FamilySearch (28 July 2019), Irene R Spahr in household of Morgan E Spahr, Jackson Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 67-45, sheet 3B, line 70, family 55, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3642.

Acknowledgements

This profile was created, researched and initially written by Kathy Rabenstein (related only by marriage).