Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Mount Heroden Baptist Church, 1117 Clay St., with the Rev. Louis A. Hall Sr. officiating. Burial will follow at the Vicksburg National Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 until 7 tonight at W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home and Tuesday at the church from 10 a.m. until the service.

Mr. Spencer died Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. He was 88.

He was an original member of the popular Vicksburg band the Red Tops, with which he played saxophone for 20 years. He worked as chief messenger for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for 37 years, and also worked at the Saenger Theatre, operated Gladys’ Grocery Store and owned and managed a janitorial service. He served in the Navy in World War II, was a member of Mount Heroden Baptist Church and was a charter member of the American Legion Tyner-Post No. 213.