Margrete Victoria Spencer

February 14,1948 - July 6,2023

Margrete passed at home in Kelsey on her 54th anniversary after a lengthy illness. Margrete graduated El Dorado High as part of the notorious class of 1966. If you remember we were part of the funeral march thru Placerville to the "OLD" El Dorado High where we had a funeral and buried a brick with a sermon from the youth minister from the Episcopal Church. Class of 1966 was in bad graces by all our elders. That is just 1 of the reasons the class of 1966 will always be remembered. Next Margrete attended American River College in Placerville better known as UBR University behind Raleys. Followed by her attendance at Sacramento City College.

Margrete was always a busy person all her married life. She was part of the startup group of the now closed First Christian Church of Placerville. The church was a small group that met on the fairgrounds in the Veteran Building. To get new members there was a PIE & CAKE feast after the sermon. The church grew quickly to the point that we could build the church on the hill over Cold Springs Road.

After moving to John's old family homestead in Kelsey Margrete got into breeding old breed sheep. Next Margrete worked with Black Sheep Association and got a certified Black Sheep Show started at the county fair. It was getting bigger each year until there was a change in the fair board and it was decided to remove their support. Margrete had a large rabbit barn built and started raising and selling meat rabbits for a few years. We saw an ad that the probation department needed a foster home. After the ad keep being printed for weeks we checked it out and became foster parents for up to 6 kids at a time. In short we had well over 125 kids thru our home. After giving up our license we adopted 2 of the kids after they aged out of the probation system. Margrete was a yarn spinner and loved to challenge herself with different types of wool or even cat & dog hair.

Margrete was preceded in death by parents attorney Geoffrey A Hughes and Bertha M Hughes; brother Geoffrey A Hughes II, and Uncle Robert (BOB) Hughes. Also adopted son Steven Lee Cron.

Margrete is survived by husband of 54 years John Robert Spencer, sister Bert Jackson, nephew Jason Jackson, Grandson Steven A Cron and great grandson Huxley Spencer Cron. Our other adopted son Chris Pinckard.

With that said In the early 1980's Margrete was in for a big surprise. A private detective approached her with "your birth sister has hired me to locate you". This lead to a big brother and big sister, just to mention 2, out of a giant family. She was still making friends when she lost her new big brother, big sister, and many aunts & uncles.

There will be no services.

No Flowers PLEASE I can't keep up the watering of her indoor & outdoor plants. Her wish is for you to check out websites "Hands for an African Child" and "Saving Mono Lake". Another choice would be Snowline Hospice.