From the Library of Congress. The Ashland (Oregon) Tidings, July 18, 1918.
Guy Spencer Died Serving In France
Mrs. A. C. Spencer received the following telegram this morning from her son Lieut. Donald Spencer who is in France: "Guy died today. Pneumonia. Will care for him. Donald."
The news of the death of this Ashland young man has come as a great shock to his parents and relatives as this was the first tidings they had that he had been ill. He was a member of Company E. 64th regiment and went with that regiment to France last spring. It is not known definitely where he had been stationed but is supposed he was in Limoges where were a number of Ashland boys.
Guy Spencer is one of three sons of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Spencer who are serving their country overseas. The others are Lieut. Donald Spencer with the 65th regiment and I. M. Spencer with the 218th engineers.
The sympathy of the entire community goes out to the aged father and mother who have given their boy at the call of his country.
(Note: One has to wonder, is the specter of the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic raising it's deadly head?)
