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Eulogy

Mavis Agenta Spence was one of ten siblings. She was born in
Jamaica on the 27 July 1924, to Edith and Abraham Plummer.
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Mavis attended Old Harbour school and was the perfect student.
After leaving school she worked at a tobacco company in
Colebeck, where she worked for many years. This must have been
hard as she also had five children to take care of, but thankfully in
those days the saying “It takes a village to raise a child” meant just
that and Grandma Edith was there.

In 1957 Mavis decided to join her brother Collymore to live in
London, until she moved to Wolverhampton where she lived with
her children Ainsley, Glen and Janice, brother Homer and other

family members. In 1968 at the bright age of 44, she got married
to Clinton Spence, who unfortunately passed away in 1984.
Mavis became baptised and gave her life to the Lord. She kept fast
to her Christian beliefs and this showed throughout her life. She

was a dedicated family woman who was loving, kind, caring,
forgiving and most of all the best councillor you could ever ask
for. She never took sides, but be sure if you were wrong, she
would tell you so. “Can’t wrong and strong” as they say. She was
plain talking, full of jokes, and always knew what was going on.

She took up employment working at the Old Vic Theatre,
Goodyears and Parkfield Hospital. She loved working at the Old
Vic. She would come home with her signed autographs and tell us
all about the stars she had met, especially the ones who left the
large tips, and the ones who made the most mess in their rooms.
(as she was a stickler for things being clean tidy and in the right

place).