Wilbur Spang

Funeral services for Wilbur Spang, 53, former Custer County resident, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Kiesau Memorial Chapel of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton, officiated by Rev. Paul Bear Track. Burial will conclude in the Mound Valley Cemetery in Thomas.

Spang was born Jan. 3, 1961 in Clinton, the son of Ernest A. Spang and Erma (Chapman) Spang, and died Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014, in the Living Care Center of El Reno.

Spang was raised in Deer Creek, Thomas, Custer City and Lame Deer, Colo. He attended school at Custer City through the 10th grade and finished his high school years at St. Lebron Catholic School in Ashland, Mont.

He was involved in a car accident in 1994, leaving him handicapped. He went on to continue his education and receive his Associates of Art Degree from Oklahoma City Community College.

He had been a resident of the El Reno nursing home for the past 20 years.

Preceding him in death were his father, Ernest Adolph Spang; step-father, Edward Tsotaddle Sr.; grandmothers, Imogene Fisher and Mary Spang; grandfathers, Langburn Fisher Sr., and Alfond Spang, James King, Sr.; a great grandmother, Sarah Flying-Out-Heap-of-Birds; an aunt, Lodema Fisher; and uncles, Bobby Fisher and Lione Fisher.

Survivors include his mother, Erma Chapman-Tsotaddle, of Fort Cobbs; a sister, Mary Jane Tossadle-Powers,  and her husband, Christopher, of Fort Cobb; a brother, Edward Tossadle Jr., of Fort Cobb; aunts, June Spang, Bonnie Belt, Hansa Burn, Yvonneda (Fisher) Thompson, all of Montana, and Norma Fisher, of Clinton, and Uncles, Terry Spang, Leroy Spang, Wilmer Spang, Jule Spang, all of Montana, and Langburn Fisher Jr., of Clinton; a niece, Nesoy-oo “Kshyiowa” Powers; and a nephew, Jakohtah Temple Powers.