Dee (Spencer) Spencer-Carr

Ancestors

Daughter of Milton Lorenzo Spencer and Alice Mae (Mihaljevich) Spencer

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Biography

Dee (Spencer) Spencer-Carr is a part of US Black heritage.

Dee (Spencer) Spencer-Carr has Hungarian Roots.

Dee (Spencer) Spencer-Carr has Slavic Roots.

Participated on the Northwest Terrier's Team for the January 2024 Connect-a-Thon

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Diane Theresa Spencer , aka Dee, was born in 1956 at Evangelical Deaconess Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. She is the only daughter of Mr Milton Lorenzo Spencer and Alice Mae (Mihaljevich) Spencer ^[1]

Like other persons who have both U.S. born parents with one or more foreign-born grandparents, both her maternal grandparents Milan and Theresa immigrated from Europe therefore Dee is a third generation immigrant. ^[2]

Her biological brother is David John Spencer.

Both her grandmothers Theresa Sondich and Zanana Brown were centenarians.

Her paternal grandfather Lonnie Spencer was one member of a team of 2 police officers who were the first black officers to be promoted to detective within the City of Milwaukee’s Police Department’s history.

Her 2x great grandfather was Bishop John Mifflin Brown , a notable bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Her direct ancestor was a leader in the Underground Railroad who also helped open a number of churches and schools, including

Payne Institute which became Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina

Paul Quinn College in Waco, Texas.

Diane Theresa Spencer was baptized Episcopal on Feb 24 1957. Her God Parents were Kissinger-932 and Eckhart-229

Diane Baptized

As a young girl, Dee lived in The Walker Point neighborhood of Milwaukee Wisconsin just a few blocks South of 16th and National Ave, aka the 16th St viaduct. [1]. The viaduct was known as the “Mason-Dixon Line” of Milwaukee, separating the city’s white and black communities.

The Spencer family home addresses were,

1710 west Washington, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Home 1

1021 S 17th Street, Milwaukee, Wis.

Home 2

She attended Longfellow Elementary School and later, Walker junior High School in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin through the summer of 1970.

Diane played the first violin and succeeded in auditioning for in the first violin section, third chair, with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra for Youth.

An Evening of Music,

Evening Concert Program, Original Program, Winter Concert,Vogel Hall,Performing Arts Center,Sunday, January 25, 1970,4:00;MUSIC FOR YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA II, Bernard Stepnet, Director,MUSIC FOR YOUTH TRAINING ORCHESTRA, Ronald Melby, Director,MUSIC FOR YOUTH WIND AND PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE, John Drewes, Director,

Due to the continued racial segregation in Milwaukee and the fact her parents were a racially mixed couple living during unsettled times, the family moved to Waukesha County, Wisconsin, the summer of 1970 where Dee was enrolled as a student at Mukwonago Union High School.

Home in Hidden Lakes

Through her life, Diane was never offered information about her father's ethnicity and his racial fluidity continued due to constant civil unrest between white people and black people.

Beginning the fall of 1970, Diane attended and then later graduated from Mukwonago High School (1974) in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. While attending high school , she was a member of the girls track team and the mixed chorus. Diane was cast in several musicals and plays while in her high school years. ^{[3] [4][5]}

MUHS Track girls team

Butterflies Are Free

After graduating high school Diane attended two years of college within the University of Wisconsin system at UWM and UW Oshkosh. She lived and worked on the hip Eastside of Milwaukee and later on in New Holstein, Wisconsin. Dee gained a love for floral design while employed at Haentze Floral Fond du Lac, Wi while living with the Fett family in New Holstein Wisconsin and attending the UW Oshkosh, Fond Du Lac Extension.

In 1977 Diane relocated to South Florida with her friend Marc, who was a member of the Rock band Truc of America. It was a time in the school of hard knocks that could never be traded nor desired to be!!

Truc of America at Summerfest

During that time in her life, Dee traveled to

Hong Kong,

Jamaica,

South America

Mexico

Canada

Hawaii and most of the United States.

Dee was one of many who attended the opening of Star Wars at Grauman Chinese Theatre on May 25, 1977.

Dee attended and earned an associates degree in floral design from the South Florida School of Floral Design.

Diane T Spencer was a resident in Palm Beach Shores, Florida, USA. She resided at Tiara Condo on Singer Island, Palm Beach County, Florida. ^[6]

Dee moved back to her hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin in October of 1981. From 1982 to 1988, Diane lived in Pewaukee, Wisconsin with her half-sister and along with their mother, Alice , Dee helped her older half sister , an unwed mother, raise her daughter Alisa D Walters.

Diane married Don “Oscar Rathkamp” on 13 Feb 1988 in Waukesha, Waukesha. ^[7][8]

Diane worked for Guhring Inc in Brookfield Wisconsin until the birth of her daughter in 1989.

She lived in Delafield Wisconsin on Nagawika Lake. ^{[9] [10]}

Their only daughter is Kristyna Rose.^[11]

The family moved to Columbia County Georgia in 1995, while blending Dons son from his first marriage, Justin into the family. They resided at 3481 Evans To Locks Rd, Martinez, Georgia.

Don and Diane Rathkamp divorced in 2000. ^[12] Diane retained her LNAB , Spencer, after divorcing Rathkamp.

In 2000, Dee met her current husband Michael Anthony after a long run on the Augusta canal.

Michael Carr and Diane Spencer were married on 14 March 2003 at the zero mile marker of the Augusta Canal Tow Path running trail.^{[13] [14]}

Carr Spencer Marriage Augusta Canal

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Michael and Diane ran many miles and road races together over 20 years.

Runner mom

Breast cancer marathon

Dee was a Skirtsports Ambassador and a key organizer for the Skirt Chaser 5 k nationwide road race series. .

Skirt Mag

Diane was a sole proprietor in her therapeutic massage business Ginger Blossom Body Works located in Martinez, Georgia.

Vegan Activism

Diane established a small nonprofit , the Augusta GA Chapter of part of the Global ARA Organization Animal Save Movement and co organized the Augusta GA Chapter of Anonymous for the Voiceless AV AGS. Her NPO Farmed Animal Alliance is currently operating and registered under 82-4350073.

AV AGS

Dee and Ginger in Milwaukee

Dee Spencer-Carr is a mother and wife. She is a breast cancer survivor. ^[18] and a long distance runner. She is an ethical Vegan , an Animal Rights activist , and a righteous Humans Rights promoter.

Whenever possible and practicable, Dee has maintained an equitable and ethical relationship with all species of her fellow earthlings.

Research Notes

"I am of the realization that my own organic family believes that because my mother was white and I have recently confirmed with DNA that my father was black; I'm somehow not really black. Sadly, most people in the country think that's how it works. It's complicated and it dates back to a time when slave-owners like Thomas Jefferson invited/ordered their slaves like Sally Hemings up to their chambers, which of course resulted in a bunch of folks like me. We are called mulattos. Crazy offensive name, right? Well, crazier offensive origin, because the word "mulatto" derived from the Spanish (not Portuguese) word for mule.

But being mulatto had another side to it. If you had a white slave-owner daddy, you may have been one of the few slaves who learned to read, write, or even got your freedom.

This preferential treatment created major friction between black people and mulattos, a complicated relationship which went on for generations.

The Civil Rights Movement in the USA encouraged biracial people to embrace their heritage and to be proud of being any kind of black.

Interracial marriage was legalized in the late 60’s and by the early '90s, biracial births sky-rocketed by over 500%.

That's 500% more people like me who have had an identity crisis and who don't know what to call themselves."

This was also the opinion of Spencer-24565 but quoted and adapted from the transcript fromBlack-ish S3 Ep8 56 directed by Kevin Bray,written by Jenifer Rice-Genzuk,Henry,aired on November 30 2016, 309, 537.^[19]

DNA

• Daughter ,DNA Match 49.7% (3,523.1‎ cM),Shared DNA,24,Shared segments,284.2‎ cM.,Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal MyHeritageDNA test match between Kristy Rathkamp and Diane (Spencer) Spencer-Carr, her mother (direct ancestor). Predicted relationship from MyHeritageDNA: Daughter , based on sharing 3,523.1‎ cM cM across 284.2 segments.Daughter DNA Match 49.7% (3,523.1‎ cM) Shared DNA,24 Shared segments,284.2‎ cM.

• David J Spencer, Brother | Both sides,47% - 55% shared DNA: 2,666 cM across 45 segments.

• DNA Halpa Groups, According to National Geographic DNA , my paternal branch is R-L664, my maternal branch is H7.

Digital afterlife

In the knowledge that we are all mortal, I hereby request that upon my death, all of my managed profiles of deceased persons including my own profile should be set to full open status. (Please add my year of death.) I would welcome any descendant or cousin to then become profile manager and continue this labor of love which I started so many decades ago.

Sources

1. ↑ Original Certificate of Birth , Diane Theresa Spencer', 22 December 1956, citing mother Alice M. Mihaljevich, father Milton L Spencer, Wisconsin State Board of Health v, Original Certificate of Live Birth, State Birth No.118-56-24235, signed on 26 December 1956, filed 28 December 1956, located in Georgia in the personal files of Spencer-24565.
2. ↑ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3807942/
3. ↑ 1972 School Yearbook: "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016","U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: Mukwonago High School; Year: 1972Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1265 #1349100580 (accessed 26 February 2023)
   School Location: Mukwonago, Wisconsin, USA; Birth Year: abt 1956; Name: D Spencer; School: Mukwonago High School; Yearbook Date: 1972; Estimated Age: Abt 16.
4. ↑ '’1973 School Yearbook: "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016","U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: Mukwonago High School; Year: 1973,Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1265 #1327448828 (accessed 26 February 2023)
   School Location: Mukwonago, Wisconsin, USA; Birth Year: abt 1957; Name: D Spencer; School: Mukwonago High School; Yearbook Date: 1973; Estimated Age: Abt 16.
5. ↑ MHS GIRLS TRACK https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/2090167?mark=94654de9c05ac7300d86cc42d1d98fb9c87812abc9767f7661f1c2d8024ffa34
6. ↑ Residence,"U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2," database
   Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings
   Ancestry Record 1732 #335943085 (accessed 27 June 2023)
   Zip Code: 33404-3247; Address: 3000 N Ocean Dr Apt 15b; Name: Diane T Spencer; Birth Date: 22 Dec 1956; Residence Place: Palm Beach Shores, Florida, USA.
7. ↑ Wisconsin Dept of health and social services, original marriage certificate 00122 (18788575), Donald Jerry Rathkamp and Diane Theresa Spencer; Waukesha County Register of Deeds, 13 Feb 1988 original document in family files
8. ↑ Marriage, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services. Wisconsin Marriages, 1973-1978; Wisconsin Marriages, 1979-1997. Wisconsin, USA: Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8744 #1516313(accessed 27 January 2023), Diane Theresa Spencer (31) marriage to Donald Jerry Rathkamp (31) on 13 Feb 1988.
9. ↑ Residence: "U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1",Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings
   Ancestry Record 1788 #105219413 (accessed 26 February 2023),Address: 1316 Nagawicka St; Name: Diane T Rathkamp; Birth Date: 22 Dec 1956; Residence: Delafield, WI; Residence Date: 1996; Postal Code: 53018-1645
10. ↑ Residence: "U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1",Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings,Ancestry Record 1788 #86497506 (accessed 25 February 2023)
    Fourth Residence: Pewaukee, WI; Fourth Postal Code: 53072-3419; Second Phone Number: 544-1167; Second Postal Code: 53018-1645; Third Phone Number: 544-1167; Fourth Residence Date: 1986; Third Address: 347 Prospect Ave # B; Fourth Phone Number: 544-1167; Second Residence: Delafield, WI; Name: Diane T Rathkamp [Diane Spencer] [Diane Rathkamp]; Third Residence: Pewaukee, WI; Address: 1316 Nagawicka St; Second Address: 1316 Nagawicka St; Third Residence Date: 1986; Birth Date: 22 Dec 1956; Phone Number: 544-1167; Third Postal Code: 53072-3419; Postal Code: 53018-1645; Residence Date: 1988; Fourth Address: 347 Prospect Ave # B; Second Residence Date: 1988; Residence: Delafield, WI.
11. ↑ Birth Certificate of Kristyna Rose Rathkamp, 30 November 1989, referencing mother Diane Theresa Spencer, father Donald Jerry Rathkamp, Wisconsin State Board of Health, Original Certificate of Live Birth, State Birth No.118-56-24235, signed on 26 December 1989 filed 28 December 1989, Original Certificate in the possession of Spencer-24565.
12. ↑ Application for Marriage License referencing Divorce Rathkamp Spencer, dated 11 March 2003, Divorce, D-2000-156, dated 4 April 2000, State of Georgia, Columbia County, Georgia, Human Resources Vital records Service original document located in the personal files of Spencer-24565.
13. ↑ ‘’ORIGINAL,Spencer Carr marriage license Georgia Department of human services resources/vital records unit, state of Georgia county of Columbia ,Spencer Carr marriage license officiated by William M Austin book number zero page 217 title chart Chaplin – CH ( MAJ ) US Army chaplain, number 03–7410 state of Georgia county of Columbia dated March 11, 2003 and marriage took place on 14 March
14. ↑ Georgia Marriage Index, 1973-1997, Michael Anthony Carr and Diane Theresa Spencer, 14 March 2003; recorded 17 March 2003, state file No. 03-7410, Georgia Dept of Human Resources, Vital Records unit, Original Bride's Certified Copy located in personal files of Spencer-24565.
15. ↑ ‘’Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1, Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings Ancestry Record 1788 #259741380 (accessed 27 January 2023)’’
16. ↑ "U.S., Index to Public Records, 1994-2019",Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings, Ancestry Record 62209 #285412315,(accessed 27 January 2023)
17. ↑ '’Residence: "U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2"
    Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings
    Ancestry Record 1732 #314043289 (accessed 26 February 2023),Zip Code: 30907-2724; Address: 450 Bristol Rd; Name: Diane Spencer; Birth Date: 22 Dec 1956; Residence Place: Martinez, Georgia.
18. ↑ Original Medical records located at DDEAMC Correspondence office of US ARMY Facility at FT Gordon, GA copies in [Spencer-24565] personal files.
19. ↑ Blackish S3e8.

Also see

• Wisconsin
• Milwaukee
• "Local woman finds family after 6 decades apart: ‘It was like being reborn." by Nick Proto, produced by www.wrdw.com, Published: Jun. 23, 2021, at 7:00 PM EDT, AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT)
• Scholar article on segregation in Milwaukee
• Anonymous for the Voiceless
• Animal Save Movement
• Farmed Animal Alliance
• John M Brown
• 26.2 with Donna