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She attended Mundelein College (which is currently part of Loyola University of Chicago), where she was on the swim team. After working for several years as an administrative assistant at Consolidated Coal Company on Michigan Avenue along Chicago's Magnificent Mile, she married Robert F. Spoeri, Sr. in 1949. She spent the quarter-century raising five children who were not always well behaved. She helped her husband run an automobile dealership in 1960's and 1970's. Her other jobs included working on the chrome line at a factory in Spring Valley, Illinois and in a loan (shark) office in Roger's Park neighborhood of Chicago. She was active as a Girl Scout leader in the 1960's. She once enjoyed bowling and swimming, but as a little more sedentary at the present. She used to raise cane; today, it is more common for a cane to be raising her, as she gets up from a chair. She has remained an avid science fiction enthusiast. She has a special interest in language and remains very committed to her family. In the last decade, she has developed a special sensitivity to those who have lost loved ones, as a result of losing her husband, her only sister, a son and a granddaughter. she has some interesting stories to tell. (July 2000)
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1924 - 2007 (83 years)