According to her own account, she was "a companion, confidante and keeper of secrets in the exciting days of his early career".
They drove bumper cars in Las Vegas, rode horses in California and hung out at Graceland.
On June 11, 1956, Time magazine ironically reported: When Presley and Spreckels visited Graceland, she said, "We stayed up all night listening to Elvis singing and playing the piano.
In a letter of August 25, 1958, Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker confirms that Judy Spreckels came "to Memphis to be with Elvis for the Funeral [,] this was very kind of her also.
"[2] Spreckels also remembers that in Los Angeles, where Elvis made movies, she went out on a Sunday with him and his friend, actor Nick Adams.
In later years, Spreckels still attended Presley's Las Vegas concerts, and he would stop the show to introduce her to the audience.
For a while Spreckels ran a small publishing company and edited Horses magazine in California.
In 1966, she wrote an eloquent article about the late National Horse Show Jumper champion, Ben O'Meara.