Salem….

Bertha A. (Spurling) Hoar, age 83, wife of the late Leonard Hoar, died Friday morning at home.

She was born in Saugus, where she spent her summers, the daughter of the late George and Elizabeth (Blair) Spurling. During the school year she lived in Salem and was graduated from Salem High School in the Class of 1943. Mrs. Hoar then became employed by the General Electric Company in Lynn until the end of World War II and she and her husband married.

They began their family and then in her late 40's Mrs. Hoar taught roller skating in Ames Hall at the Salem YMCA. Later in life she enjoyed traveling with her family to Walt Disney World and Walt Disney Land. For many years Mrs. Hoar and her family would also spend the summers at a summer camp built by her father in Center Ossipee, NH.

Mrs. Hoar is survived by three children, Leslie Holler and her husband Harry Holler of Newark, OH, Cynthia "Cindy" Preczewski and her husband Retired Salem Fire Department Inspector Frank Preczewski of Salem and J. David Hoar and his wife Cindy
Hoar of Windham, ME; five grandchildren Kim and her husband Jason Meilleur, Ryan Preczewski, Adam and his wife Rachel Holler, Erin and her husband Mark Pennington, and Eric Holler; one great grandchild Johnathan Pennington and several nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by a brother Charlie Spurling and two sisters Gladys Rossi and Elizabeth Eckhart.

Her funeral will be held on Tuesday, August 19, at 11:00 A.M. in the Murphy Funeral Home, 85 Federal St. (cor of North St) Salem. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend. Visiting hours will be Monday from 4 to 7 P.M. Interment will be in ST. Mary's Cemetery, Salem. Those who wish may make memorial contributions to Hospice of the North Shore, 75 Sylvan St., Suite B102, Danvers, MA 01923 or to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105. For online guest book or additional information please call 978 744 0497 or visit www.MurphyFuneralHome.com.