John Wesley Mitchell Spiker, age 92, died quietly at home July 22, 2016, after living in Redwood City for 80 years.
John was born in Bushnell, Illinois, March 21, 1924, and came to the San Francisco Bay Area in the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. He was the son of William Ray Spiker and Wilma Etta Carter Mitchell.
John is survived by his wife, the “prettiest girl” in the Sequoia High class of 1942 … Mary Virginia Styles; his brother Howard of Texas, his children Paul, William, Richard and Robert of California, Jeanne of Texas, and Edward of Mississippi. He has 16 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
John attended San Jose State University, the University of Texas at Austin while in the U.S. Navy, and the University of California at Berkeley, achieving his dream of becoming a civil engineer. He worked for San Mateo County for 40 years.
John was a natural athlete, and enjoyed playing tennis, archery, basketball and golf, and watching sports on TV with his wife Virginia.
John was a founding member of St. Pius Catholic Parish, and active in St. Vincent de Paul, the Elks Lodge No. 1991 and SIRS.
Funeral Mass is 10 a.m. July 28 at Saint Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City.
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