JOE SPALDING

BENTON -- Funeral mass for Scott County Commissioner Joe "Amos" Spalding will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Denis Catholic Church. The Revs. Normand Varone and Oscar Lukefahr will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery.

Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Benton after 3 p.m. today. Parish prayers will be at 7 p.m., followed by Knights of Columbus prayer service.

Spalding, 65, died Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

He was born July 9, 1930, at Kelso, son of Joseph Lucias and Mary Johanna Enderle Spalding. He and Lois Rebecca Dirnberger were married Sept. 26, 1953, at New Hamburg.

Spalding had owned and operated Joe Spalding Trucking Co. 45 years, and had owned and operated school buses for Benton schools 20 years. He was serving a fourth term as associate commissioner of 2nd District of Scott County.

He was a member of St. Denis Church and its board, Oran Knights of Columbus, Eagles at Sikeston and Chaffee Elks Lodge. He had supervised the commodity program in Scott County, served on Benton Town Board and Scott County Extension Board.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Joe W. Spalding of Scott City, John Spalding of Benton; two daughters, Rebecca Schwartz of Chaffee, Melissa Lee of Springfield; his mother of Benton; three sisters, Ida Roper and Mary Alice Schweer of Benton, Sally Asmus of Oran, and nine grandchildren.