Frederick “Fritz” William Spatz
by Betty J. BurdanAn obituary for Frederick Spatz, age 53, appeared on the Boyertown page of the Pottstown Mercury on December 15, 1961.Frederick “Fritz” William Spatz died December 7, 1961 at Circle Terrace Hospital, Alexandria, VA. Funeral services were conducted at the Everly-Wheatly Funeral Home, Alexandria. Interment was at Arlington National Cemetery.Mr. Spatz was born in Boyertown December 2, 1898, the younger of two sons of Charles and Anna (Muntz) Spatz. In August 1917, as a student of Pennsylvania State University, a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and a member of his father’s newspaper staff, he took the examination for the Army Aviation Corps in Philadelphia. In February of 1918, at the age of 19, he enlisted. He served overseas from March 26, 1918 to July 8, 1919 and was discharged on July 17, 1919. He became a U. S. Army Air Corps flyer, receiving his flight training and pilot’s rating in France. At the close of the war, he remained in France for a time as a member of the famous “Sueyside Surkus,” group of flyers who staged air shows for the entertainment of the troops waiting to return to the United States.Lieutenant Frederick W. Spatz of the US Aviation Corps arrived state side at Charleston, SC then to Camp Dix, NJ, where he was mustered out. Returning to Boyertown he took over the publishing and editing of the family newspaper, the Berks County Democrat. After fifty-nine years and 3 generations of the Spatz family, Frederick sold the Boyertown Democrat. The new owner Collier Rhoads, publisher of the Boyertown Times merged the Democrat with the Times.Frederick was an active member in the Boyertown’s Charles B. Yerger, American Legion, Post No. 471. In 1927 Frederick organized the first drum and bugle corps of this Legion Post, serving as it’s first drum major. After 16 years, the drum and bugle corps took a brief break in 1943, due to too many members missing while they served in the military. The Drum and Bugle Corps, resumed after the war.In 1933 Frederick was chosen to manage the State Liquor Store in Boyertown. In December of the same year he sold the Democrat building on East Philadelphia Avenue, which he had converted into shops and offices. The family then moved to 115 Kent Way, West Reading. During the Second World War, Frederick was named a director in the training of young fliers for the Lodwick Aviation Military Academy, Avon Park, FL. Following the war he joined the staff of the Veterans Administration as a branch 3 officer in Philadelphia, field director of the Canteen service. He transferred to the VA National office in Washington in 1949, where he served as a retail store specialist until his death.Mr. Spatz is survived by his wife, Mrs. Marjorie Spatz at home; a son, Frederick W. Spatz Jr., of Havertown, and a daughter Mrs. William Winneshiek, at present living in Ankara Turkey; also a brother, General Carl Spatz, retired of Chevy Chase, MD; two sisters, Mrs. Carroll Leaver of Ardmore and Mrs. Donald Bassert of Pitman, NJ and seven grandchildren. He was predeceased by his parents and a sister, Ruth (Spatz) Steinmiller.
Military Information: PVT, US ARMY
by Betty J. BurdanAn obituary for Frederick Spatz, age 53, appeared on the Boyertown page of the Pottstown Mercury on December 15, 1961.Frederick “Fritz” William Spatz died December 7, 1961 at Circle Terrace Hospital, Alexandria, VA. Funeral services were conducted at the Everly-Wheatly Funeral Home, Alexandria. Interment was at Arlington National Cemetery.Mr. Spatz was born in Boyertown December 2, 1898, the younger of two sons of Charles and Anna (Muntz) Spatz. In August 1917, as a student of Pennsylvania State University, a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and a member of his father’s newspaper staff, he took the examination for the Army Aviation Corps in Philadelphia. In February of 1918, at the age of 19, he enlisted. He served overseas from March 26, 1918 to July 8, 1919 and was discharged on July 17, 1919. He became a U. S. Army Air Corps flyer, receiving his flight training and pilot’s rating in France. At the close of the war, he remained in France for a time as a member of the famous “Sueyside Surkus,” group of flyers who staged air shows for the entertainment of the troops waiting to return to the United States.Lieutenant Frederick W. Spatz of the US Aviation Corps arrived state side at Charleston, SC then to Camp Dix, NJ, where he was mustered out. Returning to Boyertown he took over the publishing and editing of the family newspaper, the Berks County Democrat. After fifty-nine years and 3 generations of the Spatz family, Frederick sold the Boyertown Democrat. The new owner Collier Rhoads, publisher of the Boyertown Times merged the Democrat with the Times.Frederick was an active member in the Boyertown’s Charles B. Yerger, American Legion, Post No. 471. In 1927 Frederick organized the first drum and bugle corps of this Legion Post, serving as it’s first drum major. After 16 years, the drum and bugle corps took a brief break in 1943, due to too many members missing while they served in the military. The Drum and Bugle Corps, resumed after the war.In 1933 Frederick was chosen to manage the State Liquor Store in Boyertown. In December of the same year he sold the Democrat building on East Philadelphia Avenue, which he had converted into shops and offices. The family then moved to 115 Kent Way, West Reading. During the Second World War, Frederick was named a director in the training of young fliers for the Lodwick Aviation Military Academy, Avon Park, FL. Following the war he joined the staff of the Veterans Administration as a branch 3 officer in Philadelphia, field director of the Canteen service. He transferred to the VA National office in Washington in 1949, where he served as a retail store specialist until his death.Mr. Spatz is survived by his wife, Mrs. Marjorie Spatz at home; a son, Frederick W. Spatz Jr., of Havertown, and a daughter Mrs. William Winneshiek, at present living in Ankara Turkey; also a brother, General Carl Spatz, retired of Chevy Chase, MD; two sisters, Mrs. Carroll Leaver of Ardmore and Mrs. Donald Bassert of Pitman, NJ and seven grandchildren. He was predeceased by his parents and a sister, Ruth (Spatz) Steinmiller.
Military Information: PVT, US ARMY
Frederick “Fritz” William Spatz
by Betty J. BurdanAn obituary for Frederick Spatz, age 53, appeared on the Boyertown page of the Pottstown Mercury on December 15, 1961.Frederick “Fritz” William Spatz died December 7, 1961 at Circle Terrace Hospital, Alexandria, VA. Funeral services were conducted at the Everly-Wheatly Funeral Home, Alexandria. Interment was at Arlington National Cemetery.Mr. Spatz was born in Boyertown December 2, 1898, the younger of two sons of Charles and Anna (Muntz) Spatz. In August 1917, as a student of Pennsylvania State University, a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and a member of his father’s newspaper staff, he took the examination for the Army Aviation Corps in Philadelphia. In February of 1918, at the age of 19, he enlisted. He served overseas from March 26, 1918 to July 8, 1919 and was discharged on July 17, 1919. He became a U. S. Army Air Corps flyer, receiving his flight training and pilot’s rating in France. At the close of the war, he remained in France for a time as a member of the famous “Sueyside Surkus,” group of flyers who staged air shows for the entertainment of the troops waiting to return to the United States.Lieutenant Frederick W. Spatz of the US Aviation Corps arrived state side at Charleston, SC then to Camp Dix, NJ, where he was mustered out. Returning to Boyertown he took over the publishing and editing of the family newspaper, the Berks County Democrat. After fifty-nine years and 3 generations of the Spatz family, Frederick sold the Boyertown Democrat. The new owner Collier Rhoads, publisher of the Boyertown Times merged the Democrat with the Times.Frederick was an active member in the Boyertown’s Charles B. Yerger, American Legion, Post No. 471. In 1927 Frederick organized the first drum and bugle corps of this Legion Post, serving as it’s first drum major. After 16 years, the drum and bugle corps took a brief break in 1943, due to too many members missing while they served in the military. The Drum and Bugle Corps, resumed after the war.In 1933 Frederick was chosen to manage the State Liquor Store in Boyertown. In December of the same year he sold the Democrat building on East Philadelphia Avenue, which he had converted into shops and offices. The family then moved to 115 Kent Way, West Reading. During the Second World War, Frederick was named a director in the training of young fliers for the Lodwick Aviation Military Academy, Avon Park, FL. Following the war he joined the staff of the Veterans Administration as a branch 3 officer in Philadelphia, field director of the Canteen service. He transferred to the VA National office in Washington in 1949, where he served as a retail store specialist until his death.Mr. Spatz is survived by his wife, Mrs. Marjorie Spatz at home; a son, Frederick W. Spatz Jr., of Havertown, and a daughter Mrs. William Winneshiek, at present living in Ankara Turkey; also a brother, General Carl Spatz, retired of Chevy Chase, MD; two sisters, Mrs. Carroll Leaver of Ardmore and Mrs. Donald Bassert of Pitman, NJ and seven grandchildren. He was predeceased by his parents and a sister, Ruth (Spatz) Steinmiller.
Military Information: PVT, US ARMY
by Betty J. BurdanAn obituary for Frederick Spatz, age 53, appeared on the Boyertown page of the Pottstown Mercury on December 15, 1961.Frederick “Fritz” William Spatz died December 7, 1961 at Circle Terrace Hospital, Alexandria, VA. Funeral services were conducted at the Everly-Wheatly Funeral Home, Alexandria. Interment was at Arlington National Cemetery.Mr. Spatz was born in Boyertown December 2, 1898, the younger of two sons of Charles and Anna (Muntz) Spatz. In August 1917, as a student of Pennsylvania State University, a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and a member of his father’s newspaper staff, he took the examination for the Army Aviation Corps in Philadelphia. In February of 1918, at the age of 19, he enlisted. He served overseas from March 26, 1918 to July 8, 1919 and was discharged on July 17, 1919. He became a U. S. Army Air Corps flyer, receiving his flight training and pilot’s rating in France. At the close of the war, he remained in France for a time as a member of the famous “Sueyside Surkus,” group of flyers who staged air shows for the entertainment of the troops waiting to return to the United States.Lieutenant Frederick W. Spatz of the US Aviation Corps arrived state side at Charleston, SC then to Camp Dix, NJ, where he was mustered out. Returning to Boyertown he took over the publishing and editing of the family newspaper, the Berks County Democrat. After fifty-nine years and 3 generations of the Spatz family, Frederick sold the Boyertown Democrat. The new owner Collier Rhoads, publisher of the Boyertown Times merged the Democrat with the Times.Frederick was an active member in the Boyertown’s Charles B. Yerger, American Legion, Post No. 471. In 1927 Frederick organized the first drum and bugle corps of this Legion Post, serving as it’s first drum major. After 16 years, the drum and bugle corps took a brief break in 1943, due to too many members missing while they served in the military. The Drum and Bugle Corps, resumed after the war.In 1933 Frederick was chosen to manage the State Liquor Store in Boyertown. In December of the same year he sold the Democrat building on East Philadelphia Avenue, which he had converted into shops and offices. The family then moved to 115 Kent Way, West Reading. During the Second World War, Frederick was named a director in the training of young fliers for the Lodwick Aviation Military Academy, Avon Park, FL. Following the war he joined the staff of the Veterans Administration as a branch 3 officer in Philadelphia, field director of the Canteen service. He transferred to the VA National office in Washington in 1949, where he served as a retail store specialist until his death.Mr. Spatz is survived by his wife, Mrs. Marjorie Spatz at home; a son, Frederick W. Spatz Jr., of Havertown, and a daughter Mrs. William Winneshiek, at present living in Ankara Turkey; also a brother, General Carl Spatz, retired of Chevy Chase, MD; two sisters, Mrs. Carroll Leaver of Ardmore and Mrs. Donald Bassert of Pitman, NJ and seven grandchildren. He was predeceased by his parents and a sister, Ruth (Spatz) Steinmiller.
Military Information: PVT, US ARMY
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