Faylice H. Spears, 65, medical monitor technician

Faylice H. Spears, a medical monitor technician, died April 27 of cancer at her home in Columbia. She was 65.

For the past 25 years, she was a monitor technician at Montgomery General Hospital in Olney, where she worked with intensive-care patients.

Born Faylice Henry in Galveston, Texas, she attended Dillard University in New Orleans and Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Ala.

She was a member of First Baptist Church of Guilford.

Her marriage to Floyd Spears Sr. ended in divorce.

She is survived by two sons, Brian K. Spears and Floyd R. Spears, both of Columbia; and four grandchildren. A daughter, Therese Spears, died in 2000.

Services were held Thursday.