Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1917 — CHARLES W. SPINNEY DEAD [ARTICLE]

CHARLES W. SPINNEY DEAD

Former Treasurer of Newton County Died in Hospital Monday. Charles W. Spinney, a former well-known resident of Goodland and who' served two terms as treasurer of Newton county, died in a hospital at Chicago Heights Monday following an operation about two weeks previous for the removal of ulcers of the stomach. It was thought that he was on the road to recovery, but’ Monday it was deemed advisable to perform a second operation and the patient died before recovering from the anaesthetic. Mr. Spinney was born in Kankakee county, Illinois, but most of his life had been spent in Newton county. He served one term as* postmaster at Goodland and was also engaged in the mercantile business there for some time before his election as county treasurer. For the past few years he had been employed as a traveling salesman, and resided at Madison, Wisconsin. February 6, 1890, he was married to Miss Daisy Green of Goodland, who, with two daughters, Vera and Helen, survive him. The elder daughter holds a government position in Washington. He also leaves one brother, Shyiff Arthur J. Spinney of Kentland, and three sisters, Mrs. Wililam Banes of Goodland, Mrs. J. W. Cones of Rogers Park, Illinois, and Mrs. William Mills of Wenatchee, Washington. (His age was 50 years, 5 months and 25 days. The remains were taken to Goodland Tuesday and the funeral held from the Presbyterian church in that city at 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon and burial made in the Goodland cemetery.