James Tera Spencer

Funeral services for Mr. James Tera Spencer will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, January 2, 2026, in the chapel of Replogle-Lawrence Funeral Home, with Bro. Randy Pool officiating. Burial will follow in Hopewell Cemetery. Visitation will be held prior to the service from 11:00 a.m. until service time at the funeral home.

Mr. Spencer, age 96, passed away on Sunday, December 28, 2025, at the Tennessee State Veterans Home in Humboldt.

He was born in Medina, Tennessee, to the late Lewis Thilbert "Jim" Spencer and Dulcie Pauline Cotton Spencer. Tera retired from the Milan Army Ammunition Plant after many years of dedicated service. He was a faithful and active member of Medina First Baptist Church and a longtime member of the Masonic Lodge, having joined in 1951. He proudly served his country in the United States Army from 1952 to 1954. In his leisure time, Tera found great joy in gardening, especially growing tomatoes. He was well known throughout the community for his homemade peanut brittle and homegrown peanuts, which he generously shared with family and friends.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 71 years, Peggy Ann Davis Spencer; his brothers, Bluford Spencer and J.B. Spencer; and his sisters, Louise Luffman, Betty Jo Replogle, Evelyn Barnes, and Cornelia Cagle.

He is survived by his son, Paul Spencer and wife Joan of Medina, Tennessee; daughter, Kathryn Abernathy and husband Lee of Denver, Colorado; grandchildren, Amy Bryant and husband Dion, Jason Barr and wife Sara, Anna Maneclang and husband Gil, and Allison Abernathy; and great-grandchildren, Blake Bryant and wife Olivia, Matthew Bryant and fiancée Kylie, Olivia Barr, Amelia Barr, Lucy Maneclang, and Mae Clarke Maneclang.