Biographie Spenard Joseph-Gerard-Marcel

Baptized on October 07, 1919 at Sainte-Marie-Madeleine-de-Cap-de-la-Madeleine and his Godparents were Albert Lavigne and Hortense Fournier.

He was killed in World War II.

World War II Honor List of the Dead and Missing for the State of Massachusette, issued by the United States War Department records dated June 1946 on page 48, for Worcester County has Gerard M. Spenard, Service Number 31468258, Private, Massachusetts 121 Infantry as (DOW) Died of Wounds on January 2, 1945.

January 1945, Newspaper Article
Pvt. Girard N. Spinard, Killed in Germany.

Southbridge, on January 23, 1945 Mrs. Dolores Spinard, 159 Worcester Street, has received a telegram from the War Department stating that her husband, Pvt. Girard N. Spinard, was killed in Germany on January 6, 1945.  He was previously reported seriously wounded on December 20, 1944.

He entered the service in May 26, 1944, and had been overseas for two months.  He was employed at the Globe Tool and Die, Company before entering the service.  Besides his wife, he leaves one son, Richard, 16 months, and his parents, Mr and Mrs. Alphonse Spinard of 31 High Street, Southbridge.