The funeral for Jack Pershing Spilsbury, 76, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Casa Grande Stake Center, 1555 N. Colorado St. Burial will be in Mountain View Cemetery.
Mr. Spilsbury was born Jan. 19, 1918 in Hachita, New Mexico. He graduated from high school in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He attended Northern Arizona University and played varsity basketball there. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Arizona, where he played on the 1948-49 Border Conference champion basketball team.
He worked for the U.S. Border Patrol before serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps with the 598th Bombardment Squadron in Europe during World War II.
He came to Casa Grande in 1949 and was varsity boys basketball coach until 1970 at Casa Grande Union High School. He continued as a physical education instructor
until retiring in 1980. His basketball teams won five district championships and two state championships. He coached a state all-star team in 1958 and was chosen to the Silver Anniversary All-State Team in the Arizona Basketball Hall of Fame.
He was awarded the Certificate of Leadership in High School Athletics by the AAA Conference of the Arizona Interscholastic Association. He was a member of the Arizona Coaches Association and in 1987 was chosen to the Arizona High School Coaches Hall of Fame.
His lifelong interest in the sport of rodeo led him to be a charter and lifetime member of the West Pinal County Sheriff's Posse and a lifetime member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.
He died Dec. 25, 1994 in Mesa.
He is survived by his wife, Diane; two sons, Blayne R. and Randy A., both of Gilbert; two daughters, Gaye S. Walker, of Casa Grande and Lee S. Rippel, of Houston; two sisters, Mittie S. Hudson, of El Paso, Texas, and Nellie S. Romney, of Colonia Juarez; two brothers, H. Kelly, of El Paso and Max R., of Colonia Juarez; 15 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Cole & Maud Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
(Obituary published in Casa Grande Dispatch, 12/27/1994.)
Mr. Spilsbury was born Jan. 19, 1918 in Hachita, New Mexico. He graduated from high school in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He attended Northern Arizona University and played varsity basketball there. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Arizona, where he played on the 1948-49 Border Conference champion basketball team.
He worked for the U.S. Border Patrol before serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps with the 598th Bombardment Squadron in Europe during World War II.
He came to Casa Grande in 1949 and was varsity boys basketball coach until 1970 at Casa Grande Union High School. He continued as a physical education instructor
until retiring in 1980. His basketball teams won five district championships and two state championships. He coached a state all-star team in 1958 and was chosen to the Silver Anniversary All-State Team in the Arizona Basketball Hall of Fame.
He was awarded the Certificate of Leadership in High School Athletics by the AAA Conference of the Arizona Interscholastic Association. He was a member of the Arizona Coaches Association and in 1987 was chosen to the Arizona High School Coaches Hall of Fame.
His lifelong interest in the sport of rodeo led him to be a charter and lifetime member of the West Pinal County Sheriff's Posse and a lifetime member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.
He died Dec. 25, 1994 in Mesa.
He is survived by his wife, Diane; two sons, Blayne R. and Randy A., both of Gilbert; two daughters, Gaye S. Walker, of Casa Grande and Lee S. Rippel, of Houston; two sisters, Mittie S. Hudson, of El Paso, Texas, and Nellie S. Romney, of Colonia Juarez; two brothers, H. Kelly, of El Paso and Max R., of Colonia Juarez; 15 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Cole & Maud Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
(Obituary published in Casa Grande Dispatch, 12/27/1994.)
The funeral for Jack Pershing Spilsbury, 76, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Casa Grande Stake Center, 1555 N. Colorado St. Burial will be in Mountain View Cemetery.
Mr. Spilsbury was born Jan. 19, 1918 in Hachita, New Mexico. He graduated from high school in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He attended Northern Arizona University and played varsity basketball there. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Arizona, where he played on the 1948-49 Border Conference champion basketball team.
He worked for the U.S. Border Patrol before serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps with the 598th Bombardment Squadron in Europe during World War II.
He came to Casa Grande in 1949 and was varsity boys basketball coach until 1970 at Casa Grande Union High School. He continued as a physical education instructor
until retiring in 1980. His basketball teams won five district championships and two state championships. He coached a state all-star team in 1958 and was chosen to the Silver Anniversary All-State Team in the Arizona Basketball Hall of Fame.
He was awarded the Certificate of Leadership in High School Athletics by the AAA Conference of the Arizona Interscholastic Association. He was a member of the Arizona Coaches Association and in 1987 was chosen to the Arizona High School Coaches Hall of Fame.
His lifelong interest in the sport of rodeo led him to be a charter and lifetime member of the West Pinal County Sheriff's Posse and a lifetime member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.
He died Dec. 25, 1994 in Mesa.
He is survived by his wife, Diane; two sons, Blayne R. and Randy A., both of Gilbert; two daughters, Gaye S. Walker, of Casa Grande and Lee S. Rippel, of Houston; two sisters, Mittie S. Hudson, of El Paso, Texas, and Nellie S. Romney, of Colonia Juarez; two brothers, H. Kelly, of El Paso and Max R., of Colonia Juarez; 15 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Cole & Maud Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
(Obituary published in Casa Grande Dispatch, 12/27/1994.)
Mr. Spilsbury was born Jan. 19, 1918 in Hachita, New Mexico. He graduated from high school in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He attended Northern Arizona University and played varsity basketball there. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Arizona, where he played on the 1948-49 Border Conference champion basketball team.
He worked for the U.S. Border Patrol before serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps with the 598th Bombardment Squadron in Europe during World War II.
He came to Casa Grande in 1949 and was varsity boys basketball coach until 1970 at Casa Grande Union High School. He continued as a physical education instructor
until retiring in 1980. His basketball teams won five district championships and two state championships. He coached a state all-star team in 1958 and was chosen to the Silver Anniversary All-State Team in the Arizona Basketball Hall of Fame.
He was awarded the Certificate of Leadership in High School Athletics by the AAA Conference of the Arizona Interscholastic Association. He was a member of the Arizona Coaches Association and in 1987 was chosen to the Arizona High School Coaches Hall of Fame.
His lifelong interest in the sport of rodeo led him to be a charter and lifetime member of the West Pinal County Sheriff's Posse and a lifetime member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.
He died Dec. 25, 1994 in Mesa.
He is survived by his wife, Diane; two sons, Blayne R. and Randy A., both of Gilbert; two daughters, Gaye S. Walker, of Casa Grande and Lee S. Rippel, of Houston; two sisters, Mittie S. Hudson, of El Paso, Texas, and Nellie S. Romney, of Colonia Juarez; two brothers, H. Kelly, of El Paso and Max R., of Colonia Juarez; 15 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Cole & Maud Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
(Obituary published in Casa Grande Dispatch, 12/27/1994.)
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