SPURLING - CLYDE - 1931, Islesford

March 4, 1931
Bar harbor Times

Many people in the town where shocked and saddened Thursday to learn of the sudden death of Clyde Spurling at the Central New England Sanitorium in Rutland, Mass.,  where he had been for more than a year receiving treatment.  He had made rapid progress to a final recovery when taken with a serve cold, which resulted in spinal meningitis, which caused his death.  Clyde was the son of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Spurling of Islesford, a most promising young man, of fine character and sunny disposition.
He was a graduate of the southwest Harbor High School class of 1929, and most capable in many lines of work as to his age, being in his twenty-first year.  The funeral was from the home of his parents at Islesford, Sunday afternoon.  Prof. Cummings of Bangor officiating.  The floral tributes were many and beautiful.  Internment was in the family lot at Cranberry Island.  Besides his parents, he leaves one sister, Mrs. Harvard Beal of Southwest Harbor, one brother, Elmer of Cranberry Isles, and St. Augustine, Fl., three half brothers;  Frederick of Westbrook,  Walter and Clarence Joy of Rockland, Maine, besides many relatives and a host of young friends.  Deepest sympathy is expressed for the family;  especially the devoted parents, as beside this deep sorrow, the passing of two daughters, Bernice, age 25, died Sept. 22, 1929, and Mrs. Ella Francis Fernald, aged 22, died Jan. 15, 1930.