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Juanita Mae Spencer

Shackelford Funeral Home
Published Wednesday, June 27, 2001 in the Nevada County Picayune

Juanita Mae Spencer, 78, of Prescott died Sunday, June 17, 2001, at Hope.

Spencer was born February 10, 1923, in Tahlequah, Okla., to James Christopher Tillman and Nancy Mae Whisenant Tillman.

She was owner/operator of an auto parts store, member of the Immanuel Baptist Church of Magnolia, member of the American Legion Auxiliary and a Girl Scout Leader.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Clinton Floyd Spencer; her parents, Jim and Mae Tillman; three brothers, an infant, Eugene Tillman and Charles Tillman.

Survivors include her son, Gerald Spencer of Emerson; three daughters and sons-in-law, Donna and Lonny Bradberry of Bigelow; Cheryl and John Wilson of Altus, Okla., and Cynthia and Ricky Reyenga of Prescott; two sisters, Pauline Giner of Novato, Calif., and Betty Easley of Sperry, Okla., four brothers, Leo Tillman of Okmulgee, Okla., Edmund Tillman of Pryer, Okla., Bill Tillman of Collinsville, Okla., Clarence Tillman of Coweta, Okla., seven grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews and a host of friends.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, June 20, at Johnson-Kunkel Mortuary Chapel with Jeff Easley officiating. Burial followed in the DeWitt Cemetery in Humboldt, Kansas under the direction of Shackelford Funeral Home of Prescott.


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