Sidney Charles Spiegel

Funeral services for Sidney Charles Spiegel, 94, will be held on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at 11:00 am. at Forest Park Funeral Home, 1201 Louisiana Avenue, Shreveport, Louisiana. Burial will follow at Forest Park Cemetery. Visitation will be held immediately prior to the service at 10:00 am. Officiating the service will be Rev. Jeff Segner.

Mr. Spiegel was born on September 11, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. He left to be with his Lord and with his Janis on Friday April 14, 2023, in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Preceding him in death is his dear wife of 69 years, Janis Gillespie Spiegel. Honoring and celebrating his memory are his children Edith Spiegel Callaway and Charles Spiegel and wife Donna; his grandchildren April Callaway Palmer, Ashley Spiegel Concilio and husband, Michael, Casey Spiegel and wife, Shannon, Kristin Callaway Calk and husband, Jeff, and Jenny Spiegel Old and James Maxey; great-grandchildren Jackson and Sidney Grace Palmer, Milleigh Concilio, Walker and Molly Spiegel, Tatum and Hudson Calk and Ashtyn Old.

Serving as pallbearers will be Casey Spiegel, Jeff Calk, Jackson Palmer, Ashtyn Old, Cliff Roberts and Bo Roberts. Honorary pallbearers will be Harvey Huffman, Mike McGuirt, Ron Hodge, and Tommy Barr.

Mr. Spiegel was a veteran of the US Marine Corp, and he served in the Korean War until his honorable discharge in 1952. He attended Centenary College with the help of the GI Bill. Toward the end of his military service, he met and married his life’s love, Janis Gillespie, when he was 24 and she was 18. He later began his career as a printer, expert Linotype operator and business owner. He and Janis owned Lightfoot Printing in downtown Shreveport for many years until his retirement. Our family still remembers the sounds and smells of his printing shop, as well as the ink that perpetually stained his fingers as a mark of his profession. In his later years Mr. Sid was a beloved crossing guard who cheered each child and each car that passed. Mr. Sid was a fixture at Springs of Grace Baptist Church where he and Janis attended for nearly 70 years. He served in many ways over the years and was a loyal support to leadership, members and guests. His presence will deeply be missed.

So many people knew Mr. Spiegel. Whether they called him Sidney, or Mr. Sid, or Daddy or Dad or Grandaddy, to all, he was the nicest and best person they knew. Mr. Sid gave his big smile, outstretched hand and loud greeting to anyone he met. He was abundantly joyful. Our family knows well how he especially greeted us that way, so gladly and openly. We were always welcome and always safe, and we knew he deeply loved us no matter what.

We will dearly miss our traditions and our countless memories with Grandmother and Grandaddy. We remember hats, red socks, white shoes, swinging outside, playing with rollers and playing with toys, TV trays and football, reading the Bible daily in his chair, and driving Janis, his soul mate of 69 years, anywhere she needed to go. We will miss their loyalty, their love for each other, and their love for us. We will miss Christmas mornings, when we gathered and he read from his Bible, now patched with duct tape, from the Gospel of Luke, then prayed a prayer of thankfulness and blessings for us. Of all our precious traditions, this may be missed the most. We will never forget as he faithfully and prayerfully shared with us each year: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”