Mildred Spencer of TX was born on August 14, 1929 to Silas Johnson Wilburn and Hazel Otie Kirk Wilburn. She has siblings S. J. Wilburn, Ernest Marvin Wilburn, Eugene Pierce Wilburn, Maurine Elizabeth Wilburn Minnick, and Dorothy Ann Wilburn Brown. Mildred was baptized circa 1940. She married Sam Grady Burke on September 28, 1951 in Pasadena, Harris County United States, and they were married until Sam's death on May 8, 1968 in Panola County United States. They had a child Janis Lynn Burke Cox. She also married Michael F. Spencer on July 17, 1983, and they were married until Michael's death.