Extracted from The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, TX)
Tuesday, February 6, 1973

ERNEST W. SPRADLEY

Graveside services and interment for Lt. Col. Ernest Warner Spradley (Ret.), 54, of Los Angeles, Calif., will be held at 9:30 a.m., Wednesday at Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery.

Survivors include his three daughters, mother and sister.

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SPRADLEY

Lt. Col. Ernest Warner Spradley USAF (Ret.) age 54 of Los Angeles, Calif. died Saturday in that city. He enlisted in the British Air Force in Cairo, Egypt [194?-4?], enisted in the American Air Force 1943 in Cairo, Egypt.

Survivors: daughters, Mrs. Janice McCarthy, Houston; Mrs. Jane [Calahrin?], Tulsa, Okla.; Miss Susan Spradley, Houston; mother, Mrs. Blanch Cory Shirley; sister, Mrs. Louise Murphy, both of Texas.

Graveside service with full military honors Wednesday at 9:00 Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Chaplain Kenneth A. Warlord officiating. Arrangements with:

PORTER LORING
McCullough at Elmira