Josephine Hopkins Spruance, d. ca. 1921

SPRUANCE, HOPKINS, CONNORS, KERR, STAFFORD

Posted By: Karen Bergquist, volunteer
Date: 4/1/2004 at 15:25:24

Mrs. Josephine Spruance, 71 years old, pioneer resident of Colorado and Denver, died September 25th at St. Luke's Hospital. She lived at 1713 East Sixteenth Street.

Mrs. Spruance was born at Mt. Sterling, Iowa, March 7, 1853. She married Alec Spruance Nov. 2, 1875 and moved with her husband to Colorado in the same year, the couple making their home at Georgetown. In 1896 they moved to Denver. Mr. Spruance died here a few months later.

She was a member of the Territorial daughters Eastern Star and of St. Mark's Episcopal church. She is survived by onedaughter, Mrs. Jack T. Connors of Denver; one son, Howard A. Spruance of Alameda, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. H. J. Kerr of Retsil, Wash., and Mrs. Ida M. Stafford of Bonaparte; two brothers, Thomas H. Hopkins of Seattle Wash., and Charles E. Hopkins of Forsythe, Mont.; and one grandson, James S. Connors of Denver.

The above obituary sketch is clipped from the Rocky Mountain News of Denver and is of much interest to old residents of the southeastern part of the county, many of whom were friends of Mrs. Spruance.

Her girlhood was spent in Bonaparte where her father, Thomas Hopkins, was in the mercantile business. She suffered a stroke of paralysis on April 16, 1921 which left her an invalid and a great sufferer. On August 2 of this year she had a fall, cutting her head and breaking her arm and she never recovered from the shock, gradually growing weaker until her death on September 25th.

Funeral services were held at St. Mark's church in Denver and were largely attended. Interment in Fairmount cemetery.

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