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Known as Win, he was born in Kansas , a son of Earl Winfield Spencer, Sr. and his wife, Agnes Lucy Hughes , and he attended Racine College in Racine, Wisconsin . His first wife was Bessie Wallis Warfield ( 1896 - 1986 ), the only child of Teackle Wallis Warfield and his wife, Alice Montague . They were married in 1916 and divorced in 1927 . His second wife was Miriam J. Spencer . They were divorced in 1936 . His third wife was Norma Reese ( 1889 -), the widow of Homer Stuyvesant Johnson , a Detroit manufacturer. She was a daughter of Carl Reese . Spencer and Mrs. Johnson were married in Los Angeles, California , on July 4 , 1937 . The wedding was a double ceremony; the other couple was Norma Johnson's daughter, Betty Johnson , an actress and songwriter, and Balie Peyton Legare, Jr. , a jazz musician known as Peyton Legare . Norma and Earl Spencer separated on February 9 , 1940 and were divorced later that year in Santa Monica , California . Both parties charged cruelty, and Norma declared that her husband was a plagued by what The New York Times 's announcement of their acrimonious divorce delicately called "habitual intemperance." Commander Spencer died in Coronado, California . |
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