 1944 - 2024 (80 years)
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| Name |
Steve Wesley Spradley [1] |
| Birth |
2 Feb 1944 |
Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Residence |
1950 |
Columbia, Florida, USA [1] |
| StreetAddress: US Highway 47; 6 Age: 6; ApartmentNumber: Gaif; EnumerationDistrict: 12-2; LiveOnFarm: No; ThreeOrMoreAcres: No; Son RelationToHead: Son; Never Married MaritalStatus: Single |
| Death |
12 May 2024 |
Ocala, Marion, Florida, USA |
- Steve Wesley Spradley, 80 of Live Oak, passed away on Sunday, May 12, 2024 at the HCA North-HCA Florida Ocala Hospital in Ocala, FL.
He was born the third child of four to the late, former Sherriff of Columbia County, Harry Jackson Spradley and Katie Lee Thomas Spradley. Mr. Spradley was of the Methodist faith and was raised in the First United Methodist Church of Lake City. He was a graduate of Columbia High School class of 1962 and lettered in football, being voted by his peers as the Captain of the 1962 football team. Following high school, Mr. Spradley attended Lake City Community College and then furthered his education on a football scholarship at Troy State University in Alabama. After college he joined the United States Marine Corp and served two tours in Vietnam. Mr. Spradley then worked for GE Financial in Tallahassee before he transitioned into the Florida Department of Corrections, serving as a Sergeant. Mr. Spradley was elected as Sherriff of Columbia County in 1980 and retired from Prichett Trucking in Lake Butler in 2014, with over 25 years of employment, retiring as Supervisor of dispatch.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Lorraine Capps Spradley in 2013; his daughter, Deidra Spradley in 2015; his sister, Harriett Hasbani; brother-in-law, Dr. Joseph Hasbani; and sister-in-law, Bari Hartzell.
Survivors include his two children, Shannon Spradley Brady (Shanna), Live Oak and Wesley Spradley (Adriane), Belleview; one brother, Don Spradley (Dorothy), Lake City; one sister, Linda K. Culbreth (Gerald), Tallahassee; mother-in-law, Dorothy L. Dobbs, St. Augustine; sister-in-law, Kim Wilson (David), St. Augustine; brother-in-law, Brett Markham (Candy), Virginia; seven grandchildren, Aidan, Brennan, Kaly, Brody, Everleigh, Jase and Westyn; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services for Mr. Spradley will be conducted on Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 11:00 AM in the Gateway-Forest Lawn Memorial Chapel with Rev. Howard Thomas officiating. Interment will follow in Corinth Cemetery north of Lake City. A time of visitation with the family will be one hour prior to the service in the chapel from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM.
https://www.gatewayforestlawn.com/obituary/Steve-Spradley
- HCA North-HCA Florida Ocala Hospital
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| Burial |
18 May 2024 |
Corinth Methodist Church Cemetery, Columbia, Florida, USA |
| Person ID |
I40314 |
tng Genealogy |
| Father |
Harry Jackson Spradley, b. 23 Sep 1916, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 3 Nov 1979, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 63 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Katie Lee Thomas, b. 4 Sep 1920, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 24 Feb 2009, Jasper, Hamilton, Florida, USA (Age 88 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
16 Dec 1936 |
Suwannee, Florida, USA [2] |
| Family ID |
F14985 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Dorothy Lorraine Capps, b. 30 Nov 1947, Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA d. 29 Nov 2013, Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 65 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Deidra Nichole Spradley, b. 22 Nov 1969, Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, USA d. 25 Apr 2015, Gainesville, Alachua, Florida, USA (Age 45 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 2. Living |
| | 3. Living |
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| Family ID |
F17974 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Birth - 2 Feb 1944 - Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA |
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 | Death - 12 May 2024 - Ocala, Marion, Florida, USA |
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| Sources |
- [S697] Ancestry.com, 1950 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;).
National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Columbia, Florida; Roll: 6195; Page: 23; Enumeration District: 12-2
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=62308&h=83232446&indiv=try
[ View Federal Census Document]
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=62308&h=83232446&indiv=try
- [S350] Ancestry.com, Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;).
Record for Katie Lee Thomas
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=8784&h=623616&indiv=try
Name: Katie Lee Thomas
Spouse: Harry Spradley
County of Marriage: Suwannee
Marriage Date: 1936
Volume: S-7
Certificate: 2153
Source: Florida Department of Health
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