Family:Spring, Dorothy May (1918-2007)

Dorothy May Spring (Clayton Burton, Alfred F., Sylvester P., Erastus, Amos, Amos, Abigail Chadwick, Sarah⁴ Whitney, Nathaniel³, John², John¹, Thomas^A, Robert^B), daughter of Clayton Burton and Bertha Nellie (Green) Spring, was born in Alexander, Genesee County, New York.

She married 30 October 1936, Alexander, Genesee County, New York, Harry Donald Mayer, son of Charles J. and Jennie Elizabeth (Peters) Mayer. He was born 16 December 1916, Attica, Wyoming County, New York, and died 5 February 1978, Warsaw, Wyoming County, New York.

Attica: Harry D. Mayer, 70, of 3914 East Main St., died at 4:10 a.m. Sunday (Feb. 5, 1978) at Wyoming Community Hospital, Warsaw, where he had been a patient for one week.

Mr. Mayer was born in Attica, Dec. 16, 1907, a son of Charles and Jennie Peters Mayer. A farm operator preceding his retirement, he was a member of Attica Center Baptist Church and Citizens Lodge 309, IOOF.

Surviving are his wife, Dorothy Spring Mayer; two daughters, Mrs. Thomas (Joanne) Janes of Castile and Mrs. Timothy (Beverly) Burke of Buffalo; seven grandchildren; one great-grandchild and three brothers, Edward of Sun City, Fla., Ward of Arcade and Gordon of Attica. He was the father of the late Judith Mayer.

Children of Harry Donald and Dorothy May (Spring) Mayer:

i.	Roger Allen Mayer, Died as an infant.
ii.	Joanne Gail Mayer. m. (1) Thomas Janes by whom she had six children; m. (2) Bruce Mankey by whom she had twins.
iii.	Judith Mayer, By the Rev. James B. Moseley she had Pearl Mayer and James Mayer (b. August 1967).
iv.	Beverly Jeanette Mayer.

References

Adrian Benjamin Burke, "Grave marking by descendents of Brewster, Rogers and Hopkins," The Mayflower Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 1 (March 2002).

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