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Mary Dale Brett Maxwell © Enid Morning News 07-1984 Submitted by: Glenn
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July 5, 1910 - July 4, 1984
Alva – Services for Mary Dale Brett Maxwell, 74, will be at 10 AM Saturday in the First Baptist Church in Alva. Visitation for family and friends will be Friday in the Wharton Funeral Chapel, Alva.
The Rev. Ron Argo, pastor of the First Baptist Church, will officiate at the rites and burial will be in the Alva Municipal Cemetery.
Mrs. Maxwell died Thursday, July 5, 1984, in an Enid hospital. Memorials may be made to the PEO Memorial Fund of Cottey College, with the funeral home serving as custodian of the fund.
She was born July 5, 1910 in Cordell to Oklahoma State Supreme Court Justice and Mrs. Rutherford Brett. She grew up in Ardmore, attended local schools and received a degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1938.
She was a music teacher in Verden from 1931 to 1935; in Alva public schools in 1938, and Ardmore public schools from 1939 to 1943. She was employed by the Bechtel McCone Foreign Employment Corp. in Los Angeles. She was later employed with the U. S. Treasury in Chicago.
She was married March 9, 1944, in Pasadena, California, to Charles LeRoy Maxwell.
Maxwell was President of Alva Research Club, Regent of the Cherokee Outlet Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, President of the Alva PEO, and was State PEO Board President. She was listed Who's Who of American Women.
She was an associate of the Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities and a member of the State Arts Council of Oklahoma. She was a member of the AlvaGgolf and Country Club, President of Women's Golf Association, a member of Alpha Phi sorority a member of the First Baptist Church of Alva.
Survivors include her husband Charles, of the home; one son, Bill, Enid; one daughter, Marilyn Maxwell Shane; three grandchildren; two sisters, Olivia Dawson, Tulsa, and Mrs. Frank (Betty) Ogden, Lexington, Kentucky, and three brothers, Judge Tom Brett, Edward Brett and Rutherford Brett, all of Oklahoma City.
She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers and a sister.
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