Mary A. Spears,

Mary A. Spears, 81, of Racine, passed away, at 5:00 a.m. on Sunday, October 8, 2023 in the Overbrook Center, Middleport. Born November 16, 1941, in Olmstead, Kentucky, she was the daughter of the late Lester Emery and Willie Mae Hailey Warden. She was a retired Hotel Manager.

She is survived by her children, Teddy Glenn Smith, of Adairville, Ky., Bobbie (Michael) Holter, of Racine, and Dennis Ray (Amanda) Cropper, of Nashville, Tennessee. Seven grandchildren, Kevin Holter, Miranda Holter, Michaela Holter, Levi Cropper, Misty Cropper, Summer Caldwell, and Mary Ann Cropper, eight great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews also survive.

In addition to her parents she is preceded in death by a great-grandchild, Jess Bess, brothers, Lester Warden, and Darst (Betty) Warden, sisters, Lorene Ethridge, and Edith Mae Warden.

Private family graveside services will be held in the Greenwood Cemetery, in Adairville, Kentucky. The Cremeens-King Funeral Home, Racine is entrusted with the arrangements.