Additional Games
- Chessgames
- Game, George H. Walcott vs. Irving Spero, Northern Ohio preliminaries, Ohio state championship, 1929.
- Game, Irving Spero vs. Harry Borochow, California State Championship, 1930.
- Game, Irving Spero vs. Alfred N. Pray, Southern California League, 1935.
- Game, E. Y. Fischer vs. Irving Spero, Southern California League matches, 1936.
- Game, John Winter vs. Irving Spero, Southern California League matches, 1936.
Irving Hersh Spero
(Unknown) 1890 - August 17, 1955
Women Chess Experts Open First Tournament 18 Aug 1932, Thu The Pasadena Post (Pasadena, California) Newspapers.com
Women Chess Experts Open First Tournament
Women chess stars assembled at the Maryland Hotel boards for the first major women's chess tournament ever held. The tourney is being held in connection with the World Chess Congress. Players are, left to right: Le Vieve M. Hines, Pasadena, challenger for the U.S. title; Mrs. Alma Wolff, Los Angeles; Marion Fox, Pasadena; Mrs. Mary Balogh Bain, Los Angeles. Irving Spero, former Ohio champion, is looking on in the background.
Irving H. Spero 18 Aug 1955, Thu The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
Irving Hersh Spero
Funeral services for Irving H. Spero, 63, purchasing agent and steward for the Jewish Home for the Aged, 325 Boyle Ave., who died yesterday following a month's illness, will be conducted today at 10 a.m. at Groman's Chapel with Rabbi Saul Silverman officiating. Interment will be at Hillside Memorial Park. Mr. Spero, a resident here for 26 years, was well known in chess circles. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Ida Spero. Funeral arrangements are in charge of Groman Mortuary.
Irving Hersh Spero 18 Aug 1955, Thu The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
SPERO, Irving Hersh, beloved husband of Ida Spero.
Services today, 10 a.m., at Groman Mortuary. Interment Hillside Memorial Park.
Chess Society Honors Spero at Meeting 09 Aug 1956, Thu Lincoln Heights Bulletin-News (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
Chess society honors Spero at meeting
A meeting honoring Irving Spero, who died last year at the age of 62, will be held next Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the City Terrace Cultural Center Chess Club, 3875 City Terrace Dr.
Spero was chess champion of Ohio State from 1923 to 1929. He participated in a number of National Tournaments and was usually among the top winners.
He wrote a Chess and Checker column in the Cleveland News for several years and edited a column in Los Angeles in the California Jewish Voice.
Friends and chess players are invited to attend the memorial meeting. Lela Dane, Opera and Concert star will sing with James Low at the piano.
Harry Borochow, a close friend of Spero, will give a biography of Spero's life. Chess games will follow the ceremonies.
Funeral Held for Ida Spero 09 Aug 1969, Sat Valley Times (North Hollywood, California) Newspapers.com
DIED IN BRAZIL
Funeral Held For Ida Spero
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Ida Rose Spero, 70, who for 40 years was a key staff member of the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aged at 325 S. Boyle Ave. and its San Fernando Valley branch, 18855 Victory Blvd.
She died of a stroke while vacationing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she had gone to visit Carl Spiro, a nephew of her late husband.
Rabbi Joshua Shapiro of the Home conducted the rites at Hillside Memorial Park under the direction of Groman Mortuaries.
Mrs. Spero was born in London but was brought to Cleveland, Ohio, when two years old and was wed there to Irving Spero in 1927.
In 1929, the two came to Los Angeles, and she immediately began her 40-year tenure with the Jewish Home, starting as a secretary and eventually becoming superintendent of the five-acre grounds on Boyle Ave.
Her husband, a champion chess player, was also employed by the Home as a purchaser for 10 years until his death in 1955.
Two years ago, after opening of the new buildings at the Valley branch, Mrs. Spero moved there and continued serving the Home until her death as an administrative assistant in the social service department.
She is survived by two brothers, Sidney Rose of Cleveland and Jack Rose of Dayton, Ohio, both of whom came to Los Angeles for the funeral services.
