Roll Call Tribute

Jennifer S. Spencer 

January 19, 1961 - May 22, 2024 

Our lovely and talented Jennifer Schutt Spencer, passed away on May 22, 2024 from health complications.

The oldest of four daughters, Jennifer was born January 19, 1961 in Saginaw, Michigan to Marilyn Schutt Spencer and Norman Miller Spencer, Jr. At age two, she moved with her family to Dallas, Texas, where she was raised and educated at the Lamplighter School and Hockaday School. From an early age through her post-graduate education, Jennifer excelled in both the arts and athletics - singing with the Highland Park Presbyterian Church Youth Crusader Choir and Junior Opera Action, Captaining the Varsity Gymnastics team, skiing, and winning "Queen of the Rodeo" for her horseback riding prowess. Perhaps most of all, Jennifer had a love and rare talent for sewing, hand-designing each of the four wedding dresses for herself and her three sisters.

Jennifer attended her Freshman and Sophomore years at Skidmore College, transferring to Texas A&M University for her Junior and Senior years, where she studied Economics and joined Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority. Thereafter, she went on to earn a Masters of Fine Arts in Interior Design, studying Historical Preservation, from the University of Houston in 1999 and completed her post-graduate studies, in Business Communications, at Rice University in 2003. She carried her creativity and love of design into her profession in commercial and luxury residential design, working on transformative projects that included rejuvenating an historic railroad station into a new ballpark and a basketball arena into a major church.

Jennifer is predeceased by her father, Norman Miller Spencer, Jr. She is survived by her mother, Marilyn Schutt Spencer; three sisters Sarah Sammis her husband, Bruce; Elizabeth Owens and her husband, Coby; Natalie Lorio and her husband, CJ; and ten nieces and nephews.

Jennifer studied the Bible and read its contents daily with a sincere and loving heart and mind. A memorial service will be held in the Wynne Chapel of Highland Park Presbyterian Church, 3821 Highland Park Blvd., Dallas, Texas on Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at two o'clock in the afternoon.