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     His Social Security Number was 167-28-6701.⁵ Thomas Carter Ballagh was buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery, 215 Belmont Avenue, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania.⁶ He was born on August 11, 1903 at Baltimore, Maryland.^2,5,4 He married Vera Templeton Reed, daughter of Robert Elmer Reed and Emma Theresa Price, on January 7, 1928 at New York, New York.^7,3,8 Thomas Carter Ballagh died on October 8, 1992 at Pennsylvania at age 89.⁵ He Oct. 8, 1992, Ballagh, Thomas C., of Gladwyne, and formerly of Penn Valley, husband of the late Vera Reed Ballagh, father of Carol Boehringer and the late Patricia Spencer Simmons; also survived by 4 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. Services will be held 2 PM, Monday, at the Chadwick Funeral Home, Athens Ave. and Simpson Rd., Ardmore, Pa. Int. West Laurel Hill Cemetery. on October 11, 1992.³

     Her Social Security Number was 327-05-8951.⁷ Patricia Ann Ballagh was born on February 4, 1929 at Buenos Aires, Argentina.^2,7,8 As of before 1952,her married name was Farnik.⁹ She married Unknown Farnik before 1952.⁹ As of 1952,her married name was Spencer.⁹ Patricia Ann Ballagh married Frederick Gilman "Gil" Spencer III in 1952 at New York.⁹ Patricia Ann Ballagh and Frederick Gilman "Gil" Spencer III were divorced in 1965.¹⁰ As of May 31, 1981,her married name was Simmons.³ Patricia Ann Ballagh married Warren Keen Simmons on May 31, 1981 at Santa Clara Co., California.³ Patricia Ann Ballagh died on October 7, 1981 at Santa Clara Co., California, at age 52.⁸

     Carol Louise Ballagh was buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery, 215 Belmont Avenue, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania.⁵ Her married name was Boehringer.² She married John Randall Boehringer.² Carol Louise Ballagh was born on June 9, 1931 at Argentina.^3,6 She died on May 6, 2014 at Pennsylvania at age 82.² She Boehringer, Carol Louise Ballagh, 82, of Wynnewood PA, died on May 6, 2014. She was the beloved wife of the late John Randall Boehringer. Carol is survived by her daughter, Barbara McConnell (Lee) of Malvern PA; her son, Robert D. (Deborah) of Stamford CT; and grandchildren, Brad, Christine, Mark, Reed and Gillian. Her Memorial Service will be held at Narberth Presbyterian Church on Saturday, June 7th, at 11 A.M. on May 15, 2014.²

     Frederick Gilman "Gil" Spencer III was born on December 8, 1925 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^2,3 He married Patricia Ann Ballagh, daughter of Thomas Carter Ballagh and Vera Templeton Reed, in 1952 at New York.¹ Frederick Gilman "Gil" Spencer III and Patricia Ann Ballagh were divorced in 1965.⁴ Frederick Gilman "Gil" Spencer III died on June 24, 2011 at Manhattan, New York Co., New York, at age 85.⁴ He F. Gilman Spencer, who was known for his freewheeling style and sharp eye for writing talent as the editor of four newspapers, including The Philadelphia Daily News and The Daily News in New York, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 85. The death was confirmed by his son F. Gilman Spencer IV. Mr. Spencer, known as Gil, worked in the newspaper business for nearly half a century. Starting out as a copy boy for The Philadelphia Inquirer in the 1940s, he went on to edit The Trentonian in New Jersey and The Denver Post, in addition to the Philadelphia and New York newspapers. While editor of The Trentonian, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1974 for a series of articles on government corruption in New Jersey that led to the federal prosecution of a number of officials. Mr. Spencer was known for spotting talent and promoting it in his pages. At The Philadelphia Daily News, he decided that Pete Dexter, an obscure reporter, would make an excellent columnist. He did, and later went on to write a column for Esquire and establish a career as a novelist. After becoming editor of The Daily News in New York in 1984, Mr. Spencer helped the careers of Juan Gonzalez, Bob Herbert, Mike McAlary and Gail Collins, whose columns he often placed in the front pages to maximize their impact. Mr. Herbert and Ms. Collins later became columnists at The New York Times, and Ms. Collins was editor of the Times editorial page. “He had an amazing instinct for what people were good at and letting them do it, and knowing how much leash to give them,” said Richard Aregood, who was an editorial writer and rock critic at the Philadelphia paper when Mr. Spencer put him in charge of the editorial page. “He left the same trail from Trenton to Philadelphia to New York to Denver.” At The Daily News in New York, where he was responsible for the editorial pages as well as the news pages, Mr. Spencer brought a feistier, flashier style and a carnivorous appetite for reporting on city politics and corruption as the newspaper mounted a head-to-head battle for readers with The New York Post. “We want to put out a hard-driving, down-to-earth tabloid and enjoy ourselves doing it,” he told The Times in 1986. Arthur Browne, the city editor of The Daily News at the time and now its editorial page editor, said: “He worked at a tabloid, but he did not like frivolous silliness. He insisted that the paper not take itself too seriously but that it be a serious newspaper.” The Daily News was owned then by the Tribune Company, which had been trying, without success, to sell it. Mr. Spencer sought to combat the mood of crisis and impart a sense of purpose and buoyancy, which he managed to do at his first meeting with the newsroom staff. “It’s like watching Jimmy Stewart play a newspaper editor in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ ” Mr. Browne recalled telling a fellow editor at the meeting. Mr. Spencer often clashed with The Daily News’s publisher, James F. Hoge. In 1989, before the Democratic mayoral primary, he strongly opposed Mr. Hoge’s wish to endorse Mayor Edward I. Koch, a favorite target of the newspaper’s columnists, preferring David N. Dinkins. In the end, the newspaper endorsed Richard Ravitch. Soon after the primary election, which Mr. Dinkins won, Mr. Spencer resigned. At the time, he said his decision was motivated by impending negotiations with the newspaper’s labor unions that would have required him to make a long-term commitment to remain at The Daily News. He was hired almost immediately as editor of The Denver Post, from which he retired in 1993. Frederick Gilman Spencer III was born on Dec. 8, 1925, in Philadelphia, where his father was a lawyer. He attended Swarthmore High School but did not graduate. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he was hired as a copy boy at The Inquirer and held a variety of reporting and editing jobs at The Chester Times in Pennsylvania; The Mount Holly Herald in New Jersey; The Main Line Times of Ardmore, Pa; and The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. He worked in television in the mid-1960s as a writer and editorialist at WCAU, then the CBS station in Philadelphia, before becoming editor of The Trentonian, a tabloid, in 1967. He received the 2003 George Polk Award for career achievement. In addition to his son Gilman, of Media, Pa., Mr. Spencer, who lived in Manhattan, is survived by his wife, Isabel; three daughters, Amy Becker of Media; Elizabeth Mergel of Dorchester, Mass; and Isabel Spencer, known as Charlie, of Amherst, Mass; another son, Jonathan, of Pennington, N.J; 10 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. on June 25, 2011.⁵ He Former Daily News editor Gil Spencer was, first and foremost, a newspaper man. Scratch that. A tabloid newspaper man. But the Pulitzer Prize winner, who died at age 85 yesterday morning in Manhattan, was also a father of five. A dad who refused to let an illustrious, adventure-filled career in journalism get in the way of face time with his children. "He never missed a basketball game that I played in," Gil Spencer IV, 56, said yesterday. "He was an avid fan of sports and he made sure to go to my games. Then he'd go back to work." Spencer's death - and his 45-year career in journalism that took him from Philadelphia to New York and Denver - was mourned yesterday by family, friends and colleagues. They reminisced about the man who had a passion for horse racing, tantalizing headlines and great reporting. "Gil was that rare and marvelous creature, a fallen aristocrat. He loved race tracks and tabloid journalism and to a young reporter who loved those same things, he was absolute catnip," said Daily News city editor Gar Joseph, who was hired by Spencer in 1981. "Most of all, he was enormously fun. That sense of playfulness and humor became ingrained in the culture of the Daily News, where it remains to this day." Isabel Spencer, Spencer's second wife, said, "He had such a young outlook on things and a youthful sense of outrage [when he saw] things being done wrong," according to Gil Spencer IV. Frederick Gilman Spencer was born to F. Gilman Spencer, a prominent lawyer and a Pennsylvania assistant deputy state attorney general, and the former Elizabeth Hetherington. After World War II, in which Spencer served as a radio man on a Navy flying boat, he was hired as a copy boy at the Inquirer. He learned the craft of reporting at the Chester Times, now the Delaware County Daily Times. He worked briefly as a sports reporter for the Mount Holly Herald before returning to Chester. Spencer married Patricia Ann Ballagh in 1951, but the marriage ended in divorce and in 1965 he married Isabel Caroline Brannon. Spencer became editor of the Main Line Times in 1959 and worked for a time at the old Philadelphia Bulletin. Spencer tried his hand at broadcast news, but returned to the comfort of dailies after three years, becoming editor of The Trentonian in Trenton, where he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for editorial writing. The Pulitzer Board cited Spencer "for his courageous campaign to focus public attention on scandals in New Jersey's state government." One year later, Spencer bolted for the Philadelphia Daily News, where he was the editor for nine years. He told an interviewer that Philadelphia was "the best town in the country to be in if you're a newspaper man." Spencer left Philly to become the editor of the New York Daily News. In 1989, he joined the Denver Post, where he was editor until 1993. on June 25, 2011.⁴

     His Social Security Number was 168-12-0590.⁴ Warren Keen Simmons was born on March 17, 1920 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^4,2 He married Patricia Ann Ballagh, daughter of Thomas Carter Ballagh and Vera Templeton Reed, on May 31, 1981 at Santa Clara Co., California.¹ Warren Keen Simmons died on January 24, 1999 at Zephyrhills, Pasco Co., Florida, at age 78.^4,3 He Warren Keen Simmons, 78, of Zephyrhills died Sunday at East Pasco Medical Center. A native of Philadelphia, he moved to this area in 1991 from Canada. He was a retired Navy veteran of World War. He is survived by his wife, Barbara; two sons, John of Illinois, and Tom of Iowa; a daughter, Cynthia Bourgeault of Canada; a sister, Mariam Fritz of Iowa; and six grandchildren. on January 29, 1999.³

     Edward Stockton Stone was buried at Riverside Cemetery, Anamosa, Jones Co., Iowa.¹ He was born on June 11, 1869 at Illinois.¹ He married Ethel Reed, daughter of Jonathan Reed and Laura Amanda White, on October 19, 1905 at Bloomington, McLean Co., Illinois; Her obituary has a marriage date of Oct 12, 1904.^2,3 Edward Stockton Stone died on April 29, 1944 at Iowa at age 74.¹