Obituary:  Mrs. W. H. (Ava) Maxwell, Nov. 28, 1959

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
May 2011
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The Bronte Enterprise, Coke County, TX - December, 1959

MAXWELL
 
Mrs. W. H. Maxwell of Bronte: Rites Today

Mrs. W. H. (Ava) Maxwell, longtime Coke County resident, died Saturday, 
Nov. 28, at her Bronte home after a long illness.
 
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. today at the Bronte Methodist Church 
with burial in Fairview Cemetery under direction of Clift Funeral Home.

Mrs. Maxwell was born Aug. 17, 1867 in Illinois and came to Texas in 1897. 
Her parents were J. M. and Melissa Bruce Jones.  She had lived in Coke County 
since 1907.  She was married in Fulton, Ky.  in 1895.  Mr. Maxwell died in 1937.
She had been a member of the Methodist Church most of her life.
 
Survivors include one son, W. H. Maxwell, Jr. of Bronte: four daughters, 
Mrs. I. M. Cumbie and Mrs. Ernest Ivey, both of Bronte, Mrs. Arthur Tubb of 
Robert Lee and Mrs. Earl Barr of Ballinger; eight grandchildren and seven 
great-grandchildren.

The family requested that any memorials in her behalf be made to the memorial 
she established several years ago in the Methodist Church at Bronte.


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