OBITUARY: Richard Alan (Al) Maxwell, Mitchell County, Iowa


                          Richard "Al" Maxwell

[Mitchell County Press-News, online, www.mcpress.com, Posted July 17, 2002]

Funeral services for Al Maxwell, age 64, were held Tuesday, July 16, 2002
at the First United Methodist Church in Osage. Reverend Karen Nichols
Dungan officiated. Interment was in the Osage Cemetery. He died Saturday,
July 13, 2002 at Mercy Medical Center - North Iowa in Mason City.

Al was born June 10, 1935 at Fairfield, IA, the son of Ralph and Mildred
(Freshwater) Maxwell. He attended school in Fairfield and graduated from
Fairfield High School in 1953. He attended Parsons College in Fairfield
where he received his bachelor's degree. He was united in marriage to
Shirley Harrison on November 27, 1955 at the First Christian Church in
Fairfield.

Al taught school and coached one year at Traer, IA and then moved to Osage
in 1959 where he taught seventh grade life science and ninth grade physical
science along with coaching seventh grade football and boys basketball for
a time. Al retired from teaching in 1993. He loved to golf and spend time
with family and friends. Al was a member of the First United Methodist
Church in Osage.

Maxwell was preceded in death by his parents, one son Mark Alan Maxwell and
one brother-in-law Fred "Fritz" Nemgar.

He is survived by his wife Shirley Maxwell of Osage, three daughters Susan
Maxwell of Monroeville, PA, Shari Wells and her husband Jay of Marengo, IA
and their children Alyssa, Ryan and Scott, Cynthia Johnson and her husband
Tracy of Osage and their children Steven, Christopher, Courtney and Lindsey
James and her husband Jeremy, one sister Carol Nemgar of Eveleth, MN.





Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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