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Date
2016-03-18
Creation Date
2016-02-01
Description
Photocopy of Obituary for Elizabeth Maxwell, Mulberry, Kansas.
Digital Collection
Maxwell, Hearl (1892-1974) Collection, 1911-1931
Collection Number
SpC MS 0008
Finding Aid
http://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/fa/10/
Object Type
Photograph
Transcription
A TRIBUTE published in the pages of The Headlight & Sun
Pittsburg, KS
July 24, 1972
Memorial Obituary
Entered Into Eternal Rest Sunday July 23, 1972
Elizabeth Maxwell Dies
Mrs. M. Elizabeth Maxwell, 76, Mulberry, died at Mt. Carmel Medical Center July 23 where she had been a patient since June 30.
Mrs. Maxwell was born Jan. 31, 1896 in Bear Creek Springs Ark. She moved to Arcadia with her parents at the age of three months. For the past 41 years she had been a resident of Mulberry. She taught in the Crawford County grade schools for 22 years. Prior to retiring in 1966 she taught 12 years in the Mulberry grade schools.
She was a member of the United Methodist Church of Mulberry and the Mulberry Chapter No. 328, Order of the Eastern Star.
On June 9, 1915 she married Hearl Maxwell Sr. in Arcadia. He survives.
Other survivors are: four sons: Hearl Maxwell Jr., Frontenac, Marion Maxwell, Branson, Mo.; Max R. Maxwell Knob Noster, Mo., and Robert E. Maxwell, Shawnee, Kans.; three daughters, Mrs. Frank (Elizabeth) Jones, Mulberry; Mrs. Luigi (Patricia) Brichalli, Coffeyville and Mrs. Sandra Penner Wichita; six brothers, Charles Hamilton, Albert L. Hamilton, both of Mulberry; Walter Hamilton, Frisco City, Ala.; Frank Hamilton, Sapulpa, Okla.; George Hamilton, Denver and Ralph Hamilton, Pueblo, Colo.; two sisters, Mrs. Rose Smith, Arcadia, and Mrs. Myrtle Williams, Mulberry; 24 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
Services were at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the United Methodist Church, Mulberry, with the Rev. Elton Garrison officiating Burial will be at Sheffield Cemetery, Arcadia under the direction of the Berkey Funeral Service.
Grandsons who served as Casketbearers were: Hearl J. Maxwell, Richard T. Maxwell, Thomas H. Maxwell, Richard B. Maxwell, Bruce A. Hemby, Dale R. Smith, and Barney Montanelli.
Identifier
MH8-19720724-p001
Image Format
jpg
Location
Kansas
Publisher Digital
Pittsburg State University, Axe Library, Special Collections with English 557/757 Digital Humanities.
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Keywords
Maxwell, Hearl, 1892-1974; Maxwell, Hearl, 1892-1974 -- Correspondence; Coal miners -- Kansas -- Biography; Labor union members -- Kansas -- Biogrpahy; United Mine Workers of America. District 14;
Notes
Pittsburg State University, Special Collections, 8, Maxwell, Hearl, Box 1, Folder 32