Robert E Manspeaker (1923 - 1977)

Born 5 Apr 1923 in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland

Ancestors

Died 26 Mar 1977 at age 53 in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland

Biography

Robert was born in 1923. He was the son of Marshall Manspeaker and Blanche Runkles. He passed away in 1977.^[1]

Obituary

ROBERT E. MANSPEAKER, 53, 132 N. Potomac St., died Saturday morning at the Washington County Hospital. Born in Washington County, he was a son of Marshall and Blanch Runkle Manspeaker.

He was employed by Fairchild Industries for the past 30 years. He was a veteran of World War II.

He is survived by his wife, Emma Mae Manspeaker; two daughters, Mrs. Diane Mowen, Hagerstown, and Mrs. Gloria Jones, Funkstown; step-son, Donald Lee Slick, Smithsburg; seven sisters, Mrs. Louise Greene, Mrs. Ethel Myers, Mrs. Martha Gish, Mrs. Ann Frush, Miss Rayetta Manspeaker and Mrs. Frances Shank, all of Hagerstown, Mrs. Edith King, Gaithersburg; eight brothers, Henry and Howard, both of Funkstown; Herbert, Smithsburg; Raymond, Boonsboro; William, Richard, Elmer and Walter, all of Hagerstown; and three grandchildren.

Services were held at the Rest Haven Funeral Chapel; burial was in Rest Haven Cemetery.

Source: Morning Herald (Hagerstown, MD) Monday, March 28, 1977, Page 26

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #27713734

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7FR-YGG : 15 March 2018), Robert E Jewell in household of Marshall Jewell, Halfway, Election District 26, Washington, Maryland, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 22-71, sheet 2A, line 8, family 26, 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 1562.