Vic was a lifelong resident and business owner of Elk City, OK and a true descendant of his pioneering maternal grandparents, William L. And Louisa (Nichols) Blair, who traveled overland in a covered wagon from Denison, Texas in 1901 to file on a farm, before the 1907 statehood of Oklahoma. They filed on land just east of the community that is now known as Carter, Beckham County Oklahoma. Later in 1907 they moved and settled on a farm that had once been the site of the Beckham County Old South Elk City, OK Reservoir.

Vic was raised in the Elk City and Merritt communities where he attended both schools at different times during his primary years, before graduating from Merritt High School in 1958-59. He grew up on his father’s cotton farm, learning and working all the typical work that farm children do. But Vic always knew when he grew up that he aspired to do anything that had to do with automotive. Vic was a magnificent and creative artist. He would spend hours drawing futuristic car designs with outlandish paint jobs. He would build model cars and practice free-hand pin striping, a once popular embellishment on auto paint. He would work for hours mixing bits of automotive paints he had collected to create one-of-kind colors. He also taught himself about car engines, transmissions, and other auto repairs by tearing down and rebuilding his own vehicles.

After graduation he took on many various jobs; His first jobs were, during the day he worked for Galloway Motors in their Auto Body Shop, and at night he would run the Westland Theater and the 66 Drive-In; which is where for years around Elk City his friends would call him and know him as “Video Vic”. He later went on to hone his craft and fuel his passion for cars while working full time for Bill Beck’s Body Shop, then later for Gene Smith Chevrolet as both a body man and a mechanic. Then at night he would take complaints at the Elk City Daily News and deliver newspapers to those that had been missed on the routes.

With the demands of life changes that came with a wife and two daughters, he saw an opportunity to make more money and was offered an apprenticeship as a house painter with Cox and Evans Painting, later known as Cox and Jerry Adams Painting. They were granted a large government contract with the expansion of dual-family homes and military officers’ homes being built on the Clinton-Sherman Military Base in Burns flat, Oklahoma. Then in 1970, Vic decided to become his own contractor, to-be-in-business- for-himself, and Spencer Painting Contracting was born.

For 50 years, from 1970 to 2020, SPENCER PAINTING was one of the best names in the business, and for many of his patrons, the ONLY name in the business for Elk City and the surrounding areas. Vic was well known for how meticulous he was at his work. He could mix, match, and design any color the customer dreamt of. He also became a very skilled carpenter and furniture builder over the years. Vic Spencer was a true craftsman in every sense of the word, and he took great pride in his work.

As for his love for everything automotive, that became his lifelong hobby. Over the span of his life he bought, restored, and sold across the country many motorcycles, old hotrods, vintage cars, and trucks. Buying and trading new vehicles that he drove was also a past time of his. During his lifetime there had never been a week go by that he didn’t drive by every car dealership in town to see what they had on their lots they he may want to trade for, nor did he ever miss the opportunity to go to a Darryl Starbird National Rod & Custom Car show, or any local classic car show.

After retirement in 2020, Vic spent his time tinkering with the last of his vintage cars, his 1932 Plymouth. He had taken back up drawing and sketching, and up through 2022, he enjoyed helping his late wife Darlene with her passion of flower gardening. Over the past two years he had become a pretty good cook and an even better baker. He loved seeing and having his four daughters and grandchildren around him as much as possible. He looked forward to the daily visits and delicious meals from his dear sweet neighbors, Richard and Linda Baker. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church, a dedicate student of Dr. Charles Stanleys sermons and was daily-diligent on reading, learning, and understanding the Bible.

Vic is preceded in death by his wife, Darlene Catherine (Stine) Spencer, his parents, Charles Bluford Spencer, and Elsie Lee (Blair) Spencer, 1 brother, Charles Zane Spencer, 2 nephews, Charles Richard Spencer and Cary Zane Spencer, and 1 granddaughter, Loren Brooke Lawrence.

Vic is survived by 4 daughters, Vickie Kay Spencer, Elk City, OK, Yvetter Loren (Spencer) Schindler and husband Gene, Bowie, Texas, Karen (Bair) Clothier, Wichita, Kansas, Lori (Bair) Blizzard and husband Micheal, Shell Knob, Missouri, 10 grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends.