Cleo Spoon family

Cleo Harvey Spoon (1895-1979) was the second oldest child of John Alvin Spoon and Laura Jane Smith. He and his wife, the former Alta Carswell, moved from Kansas to Southern California in 1925. They lived for many years in Temple City, a suburb of Los Angeles .

	Cleo Spoon (far right, back row) is joined by family members at John Alvin Spoon's Alhambra, Calif. home during a Christmas Eve party in the 1940s.
	Alta Carswell Spoon was married to Cleo for 59 years. She is shown here shortly before her death in 1989.
	Three of the Spoon brothers, from left: Alvin, Adrian and Cleo.
	A photo from 1977 (from left): Alvin, Sarah, Alta and Cleo Spoon.
	Cleo Spoon poses for a portrait taken by his son Daryl Wayne, a photography student in his college days.
	Cleo's high school graduation photo in 1913.
	Cleo poses in his army uniform during World War I, in which he served in France .
	Cleo and Alta pose outside their Temple City house in the 1970s.
	Cleo and Alta's wedding photo, 1920.
	Cleo, Wayne, Wanda and Alta Spoon in the back yard of their Monterey Park , Calif. home in the 1930s.
	Cleo poses with Alfred Reidell, the husband of his sister, Carrie.
	Three generations of the Spoon family lived in this Temple City house, beginning in the 1940s.
	Cleo poses with his grandsons, Douglas Spoon and Craig Drown.