Earl Winfield Spencer Jr + Norma Reese

Earl Winfield Spencer

1888–1950

Birth 20 September 1888 Kinsley, Edwards County, Kansas, USA

Reference number Q91

Death 29 May 1950 (Age 61) Coronado, San Diego County, California, USA

Norma Reese

1889–1944

Birth 1889

Reference number Q3201

Death 1944 (Age 55) USA

No children

This family remained childless

Marriage	4 July 1937 Los Angeles, California, USA Source: The Peerage [Site updated on 10 Mar 2018] Publication: The peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe Text: The Spencers' wedding was a double wedding with Betty and Peyton Legare, whose wedding in February 1942 in Tijuana, Mexico, was not valid under California law and needed to be resolemnized. The couple separated on February 9, 1940 and were divorced later that year in Santa Monica, California. Both parties charged cruelty, and Norma declared that her husband was plagued by what The New York Times's announcement of their acrimonious divorce delicately called "habitual intemperance." Time magazine reported, "During a stormy session of accusations and counteraccusations Navyman Spencer, charged with cruelty and habitual intemperance, testified that his weekly liquor bill was only about $10, that his wife 'drank as much of it as I did.'"
Divorce	1940 Santa Monica, California, USA Source: The Peerage [Site updated on 10 Mar 2018] Publication: The peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe Text: She and Commander Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. were separated on 9 February 1940.
Number of children	0
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