- Date Of Birth: September 24, 1912
- Date Of Death: January 12, 2013
- State: New Mexico
Dub as he was called was born in Marlow, Oklahoma on September 24, 1912 to George Washington Spencer and his wife Emma Rhodes Spencer. He married a Texas girl, Bernice Roberts, January 25, 1936 in Lawton, Oklahoma. In 1937, the young couple moved to Roswell looking for employment. He led a quiet solitary life after the death of his wife Bernice in 1992. He worked as a farmer, carpenter, and became a certified auto mechanic who you could always trust, employed at Durham Ford until his retirement in 1976.
He shares his birth year with the birth of our state, New Mexico the first anniversary of the NASCAR 500 races, and the release of the first silent movie, The Keystone Cops. During his long life span of 100 years and 3 months, he has known of Pancho Villas raids, the development of nuclear bombs in Los Alamos and some terrible things too, such as two world wars, The Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and the assassination of a president.
He always said he had the best hobby in the world: fishing, fishing, and fishing. Fishing was better than eating or sleeping.
