William
William Spalding
d. May 29, 2007
Mr. William Howard Spalding, age 85 and a resident of Gulfport, passed away on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 in Gulfport.
Mr. Spalding was a native of Woodstock, CT. He was a graduate of Woodstock Academy and a member of the Woodstock Hill Congregational Church. After a year at American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts, he transferred to Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. After Pearl Harbor, he joined the Navy in their radio tech program. On completion, he shipped out on the Walter X. Young, APD 131, which carried an Underwater Demolition Team (later called Seals) in the Pacific. At the end of WWII, he graduated from Purdue with a BS in physics and worked at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Lab, Atomics International and The Ralph M. Parsons Company in California as a Controls System Engineer. In addition he worked on the Strategic Oil Reserve System, numerous nuclear power plants including Waterford III and on the Navy's Mine Hunting Ships Program.
Mr. Spalding was formerly president of the California's San Fernando Valley chapter of the Instrument Society of America. He was also a member of the NCBC Gulfport Restoration Advisory Board, the Seaman and Truckers Center, the Gulf Coast Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, the Gulfport First United Methodist Church and was active in many churches throughout the United States.
Mr. Spalding was preceded in death by his parents, George G. Spalding and Lottie E. Spalding, by his sister, Elizabeth R. Guertin, by his brother, Joseph P. Spalding and by his first wife, Betty H. Spalding. In the realm of human experience his mother's far reaching vision and his father's generosity toward others molded his existence. May the Lord bless both of them. His hopes have always been for America to have a Peace Department which would counteract its monopolistic War Department. After all, the forces of Peace can bring into being securities equal to those, if not more far reaching than those of military endeavors.
Mr. Spalding is survived by his loving wife Maxine Dawkins Spalding of Gulfport; his two sons, John G. Spalding of South Port, NC and Frederick H. Spalding of Brookings, OR; his daughter, Sally J. Plummer of England and his granddaughter, Cherish Craig of Laguna Beach, CA.
A memorial service will be held at a later date. The family requests that memorial contributions be sent to Walter Cronkite's, The World Federalist Association, P.O. Box 15250, Washington, DC 20077-1180 or to one's favorite charity.
The Riemann family's GULF COAST FUNERAL HOME, Three Rivers Road Chapel in Gulfport is in charge of arrangements. An online guestbook may be signed at www.gulfcoastfh.com.
Mr. Spalding was a native of Woodstock, CT. He was a graduate of Woodstock Academy and a member of the Woodstock Hill Congregational Church. After a year at American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts, he transferred to Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. After Pearl Harbor, he joined the Navy in their radio tech program. On completion, he shipped out on the Walter X. Young, APD 131, which carried an Underwater Demolition Team (later called Seals) in the Pacific. At the end of WWII, he graduated from Purdue with a BS in physics and worked at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Lab, Atomics International and The Ralph M. Parsons Company in California as a Controls System Engineer. In addition he worked on the Strategic Oil Reserve System, numerous nuclear power plants including Waterford III and on the Navy's Mine Hunting Ships Program.
Mr. Spalding was formerly president of the California's San Fernando Valley chapter of the Instrument Society of America. He was also a member of the NCBC Gulfport Restoration Advisory Board, the Seaman and Truckers Center, the Gulf Coast Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, the Gulfport First United Methodist Church and was active in many churches throughout the United States.
Mr. Spalding was preceded in death by his parents, George G. Spalding and Lottie E. Spalding, by his sister, Elizabeth R. Guertin, by his brother, Joseph P. Spalding and by his first wife, Betty H. Spalding. In the realm of human experience his mother's far reaching vision and his father's generosity toward others molded his existence. May the Lord bless both of them. His hopes have always been for America to have a Peace Department which would counteract its monopolistic War Department. After all, the forces of Peace can bring into being securities equal to those, if not more far reaching than those of military endeavors.
Mr. Spalding is survived by his loving wife Maxine Dawkins Spalding of Gulfport; his two sons, John G. Spalding of South Port, NC and Frederick H. Spalding of Brookings, OR; his daughter, Sally J. Plummer of England and his granddaughter, Cherish Craig of Laguna Beach, CA.
A memorial service will be held at a later date. The family requests that memorial contributions be sent to Walter Cronkite's, The World Federalist Association, P.O. Box 15250, Washington, DC 20077-1180 or to one's favorite charity.
The Riemann family's GULF COAST FUNERAL HOME, Three Rivers Road Chapel in Gulfport is in charge of arrangements. An online guestbook may be signed at www.gulfcoastfh.com.
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