SHERI GRAHAM SPENCER
Sheri Graham Spencer, 83, of Albuquerque, N.M., passed Dec. 21, 2022. Born in April 1939, Sheri graduated from Quail High School in 1957.
The granddaughter of Ben and Eula Morris, Sheri lived with her grandparents and attended all 12 years of school in Quail, Texas. She served as a member of the Quail girls’ basketball team, the Quail Bob White, and earned outstanding player accolades as a guard. Sheri also sang with the Melodeers, a girls’ music group.
Sheri and Geneva White Thomas rode the school bus together from the first grade through the 12th grade. They lived only two miles from each other and became inseparable.
Sheri represented the Quail community and school in many roles with the honor of Farm Bureau Queen and her gracious personality. Some of them deceased, classmates as pictured in the Quail High School 1957 Annual in the digital archives of the Collingsworth Public Library website included Patsy Aaron, Rita Boen, Betty Dollar, Earl Farris, Jerry Don Godbey, Sheri Graham, Martha “Marty” Johnson, Faye Lacy, Jimmy Don Lindsey, Virginia Ellen Messer, Roy Allen Newman, Don Ella Ogletree, J.D. Taylor, John Alf Thomas, Eddie Eugene Wheeler, Geneva Joyce White and Edna Ellen Wright.
The class pulled a trailer of cotton bolls south of Quail for the late Jerry Depauw, granddad of Jerry Dan Davis, to earn funds for their senior trip to Colorado Springs, Colo.
Married to Jerry Spencer, he and Sheri moved from Amarillo, Texas to Los Alamos, N.M. in 1968. He taught in the public school there until he retired in 1994. Sheri worked for the Los Alamos National Laboratory in various secretarial positions. In 1978, she became the Personnel Records Supervisor.
In late 1995, the couple moved to Albuquerque to be closer to their son-inlaw and daughter, Debra. In April 1997, they honored Sheri and Jerry with their only grandchild, Jake.
Sheri is survived by her daughter, Debra Lynn Spencer Grasser, of Albuquerque, and a grandson, Jake Grasser, of California. She had a brother, Bennie Graham.
No memorial service is planned.
