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- [S112] Census, 1930.
name: Jim Spence
event: Census
event date: 1930
event place: Tubac, Santa Cruz, Arizona
gender: Male
age: 0
marital status: Single
race: White
birthplace: Arizona
estimated birth year: 1930
immigration year:
relationship to head of household: Son
father's birthplace: Texas
mother's birthplace: Texas
enumeration district number: 0007
family number: 22
sheet number and letter: 1B
line number: 99
nara publication: T626, roll 62
film number: 2339797
digital folder number: 4532420
image number: 00366
Household Gender Age Birthplace
head A.I. Spence M 28 Texas
wife Marrella Spence F 24 Texas
son Terrell Spence M 3 Arizona
son Jim Spence M 0 Arizona
- [S142] Newspaper Article, Austin American Statesman, 4 Oct 2014.
J. Stanford Spence passed away on September 26th, 2014, in Austin, Texas. Stan was born in Nogales, Arizona on March 23, 1930. He attended schools in Arizona, the New Mexico Military Institute, and the University of Arizona. After he married and left college in 1950 he became the father of two daughters, Terry and Katherine. Stan entered into the business world and subsequently established companies in the cattle feeding, real estate, mortgage banking, and insurance industries. In 1958, while on vacation in Acapulco, he met his forever partner, Diane, and shortly thereafter they were married and began a loving partnership that lasted over half a century. Diane was always an important partner in all of Stan's business pursuits throughout the years. Diane passed away on April 12, 2011, in Austin, Texas.
In 1973, he founded his last business venture and became the Chairman & CEO of Checkmate Electronics, Inc., after he conceived of the technology and directed the development of the patented Point of Sale check readers and analyzers that dominated the POS, banking and check printing industries. After a l998 merger with a Canadian company, the combined companies became the largest supplier of Point of Sale payment terminals to large retail stores in North America. He remained as Chairman of the combined companies, IVI Checkmate, until his retirement in 2005.
After his retirement, he and Diane continued extensive traveling to Europe, Asia and South America, but his primary pursuit was to engage in, as he said, "a good game of bad golf" at the Austin Country Club.
His deceased parents were A.T. and Marcella Spence. His father and now deceased brother, Terrell, were prominent cattle ranchers in the Southwest.
Stan is survived by his daughters Terry Phelps of Cave Creek, Arizona; Katherine Lindsey of Burke, Virginia; grandson Garrett Phelps of Annapolis, Maryland; sister in law Ophelia Spence of Tucson, Arizona; niece Valerie Dixon and her husband Dan of Austin, Texas; nephew John D. Spence and his wife Amy of Tillamook, Oregon.
After cremation in Austin, a funeral Mass will be held in Tucson, Arizona, with burial at East Lawn Palms Cemetery in Tucson. In lieu of flowers and usual remembrances, the family requests memorial contributions to be made to the Austin Aussie Rescue Society, P.O. Box 1678, Bastrop, Texas 78602.
- [S147] Find a Grave, (Memorial: 136743085).
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