The following excerpt is from an obituary written by genealogist Patricia Ann Mills-Spencer-Bemis-Adams. We should all think about getting our own obit written. I’m impressed.
On August 27, 2012, I, Patricia Ann Mills-Spencer-Bemis-Adams, left this world for what I hope to be Genealogy Heaven. This is where I hope to finally have all of my genealogy questions answered.
I was born to John Wesley Mills and Dorothy Nesbeth Reed August 11, 1938 while living at 91 Gresham St., Ashland, Ore. At the age of one year, we moved to Portland, Ore., as daddy had a job at Swan Island Ship Yards. By the time we moved back to Ashland in 1945, we were a family of six. I attended the first and second grades in Multnomah, Oregon, then third grade through high school in Ashland.
October 6, 1956, I married Jack E. Spencer in Yreka, Calif. Jack and I lived many places including one year as managers of White Oak Nudist Camp in Shady Cove, Ore. Our son, Kevin Michael Spencer was born September 9, 1960 in Central Point, Ore. Shortly after Kevin arrived, Jack left me. I went back to work at Bear Creek and began a relationship with Jack B. Gundlach with whom I had my second son, James Anthony Spencer. I then had a very brief marriage to Ronald Bemis.
Read the full obit in the September 24, 2012 edition of the MailTribune.com
