John Woelk

Very likely the "Uncle John" mentioned in the 2010 StoryCorps interview.

Naming/role history. Parents of my grandmother Leila Woelk Shawhan.") that "John Woelk" was Leila's father. 2. Research that same day (a 1953 Kansas Supreme Court case, Wölk v. Wölk, and Spencer's own Ancestry.com family tree) both independently pointed to Christian Woelk, not John, as Leila's actual father — with a John (Clare) Woelk appearing instead as one of Leila's siblings (matching the court case's "John Woelk, d. 1949" almost exactly). I thought it was Christian but it is not that way in Ancestry.") that his first statement had the right names but the wrong role for John.