How often have you heard me say that “climbing the family tree” is my medicine? Documenting Sarah’s ancestry was a challenge, a bit of history, and “good medicine.” This fifth cousin has both my Frantz and Showalter ancestry. Read the newspaper clipping about her husband.
A Google search provided this additional information. Gerry Spiess dies at age 79.
POSTSCRIPT, 10 Feb 2024: Collection of information about Gerald Francis Spiess. (“Go” check it out.) https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/51857223/person/252561804784/media/e436d91e-6bd9-4191-a118-5583403678d3?_phsrc=uBK23950&usePUBJs=true&galleryindex=1&albums=pg&showGalleryAlbums=true&tab=0&pid=252561804784&sort=-created
Eighty-eight and counting 
what’s the rest of the story??? Did he make it???
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Jimmie–and interested readers–I contacted my cousin (with the newspaper subscription) for the additional information. He neglect to send “all.” ~~ CHECK BACK, later.
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Wow, quite an adventurer. Here’s a link to an article focused on the Pacific journey later, but it has some interesting details about the boat. http://www.sailingbreezes.com/sailing_breezes_current/articles/Nov05/yankeegirl1.htm
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