When Linwood P. Spence was born on 24 June 1927, in Denton, Caroline, Maryland, United States, his father, Norman Spence Sr., was 33 and his mother, Lula Mae Pollard, was 26. He married Lorraine M. Short on 14 June 1947, in Bridgeville, Sussex, Delaware, United States. He lived in Representative District 9, Kent, Delaware, United States in 1940 and Dover, Kent, Delaware, United States in 2006. He registered for military service in 1946. He died on 10 March 2006, in Kent, Delaware, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Millsboro, Sussex, Delaware, United States.
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English and Scottish: nickname for a servant employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery, from Middle English spense, spence ‘pantry, larder, storeroom’ (Old French despense, from a Late Latin derivative of dispendere, past participle dispensus ‘to weigh out or dispense’). Compare Spencer .
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