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Mrs. Maxey was a graduate of Trimble County High School, and a business school in Louisville, Kentucky. For eleven years before her marriage in 1957, she lived and worked in Louisville as a secretary for the Milk Market Administrator. She was also a homemaker.
Mrs. Maxey had been a member of Bedford Christian Church since age 13. She enjoyed birdwatching and other animals and was a member of the American humane Society.
Her surviving family includes one son and daughter-in-law, Marlon and Robin Maxey of Bedford; one daughter and son-in-law, Janelle and Bill Coghill of Crestwood, Kentucky; and one nephew, Kevin Gatewood.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Millard R. Maxey, to whom she was married in 1957, and who preceded her in death on December 2, 2000; two sisters: Roberta Fisher and Florence Gatewood and her husband, Leland; and one nephew, Greg Gatewood.
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