Melva Sue Spencer of Lake Dallas, Texas, passed away June 10, 2016 due to complications from lung cancer. She was mostly known as Sue, but to those who loved her, she was "Hon", Mama, Mom, Granny, Miss Candy, friend and counselor to many. A memorial service will be held Monday, June 13, 2016 at 2:00pm at DeBerry Funeral Home, Denton, Texas, to honor her memory and celebrate her life.

Sue was born March 19, 1944, to Leslie and Dorcas Dunn, the 5th child of a family of 8 children, in Stilwell, OK. She graduated from High School in Wayside, Kansas in 1962. She met M.E. Spencer shortly thereafter, and after a brief courtship, they married in November of 1963. She followed him to Texas, and over the course of their married life, she followed him across the country. They were always together and together they built a beautiful family and life. They lived in countless places and garnered friends all along the way. Many counseled that it would be better, for her and the kids to stay in one place and M.E. to travel, but they felt that an intact family was the cornerstone of their lives…..and they were right.

A daughter, Keri Lynn, joined their family in 1966 and a son, Jerry Allan, in 1969. Sue took pride in creating a loving home for her family and friends, and was a supreme homemaker, even before that became a fashionable thing. Her delicious afterschool snacks are what brought Wiley Payne Rudasill to the family. He and Keri married in 1986 and he became a second son to her. Rachel Lynne Lanphere joined the family, as a second daughter, when she married Jerry in 2006. The family continued to expand and grow with love with the arrival of grandchildren: Rebecca Rose Rudasill, Savanna Sue Rudasill, Jacob Taylor Spencer, David Allan Spencer, and Cooper Jay Spencer.

Sue and M.E. have spent the last 30 years traveling to Bucerias, Mexico every chance they could get away. This was their paradise and they cultivated and built an extensive network of dear friends there, too numerous to list.

Sue touched countless lives and brought much joy and sunshine to this world. We like to think that she has just gone ahead of us and will be saving a palapa for us on the beach in heaven, and when we arrive to meet her she will have a round of drinks ready.

She is survived by her beloved husband of more than 52 years, M.E.; her children Wiley & Keri Rudasill, Jerry & Rachel Spencer; grandchildren Rebecca Rudasill & fiancé Tommy Neal, Savanna Rudasill, Jacob Spencer, David Spencer, Cooper Spencer; and many additional extended family members and dear friends.