Dozens of friends, family and community members gathered at Spaans Cookie Co. factory on C Street Sunday morning to celebrate the life of cookie maker James “Jim” Spaans.
Neal
Sligh (Mr. Sligh, or “Coach,” as known to hundreds of former students
at Pacific Union School), was born March 9, 1937 to Thomas “Roy”
Sligh and Jessie Lee Sligh in Gadsden, Alabama. Neal passed away at
home surrounded by his family in the early morning of August 27,
2022. Neal did not "go
James William Spaans was born on St. Patrick s Day, March 17, 1942 to Anna (Start) and William Spaans. He passed away surrounded by his loving family on Friday, July 29,