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- Mrs. Maxwell Celebrates Eightieth Birthday
The John Jenks home east of this city was the scene of a happy family gathering today. Mrs. Linda Maxwell having been invited out to spend the day and also to celebrate her birthday. Imagine her surprise when her son Roy and wife and also their son Roy came from Ottumwa.
Other guests present to enjoy the hospitality of the Jenks home were Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wilson and two daughters and Mrs. Halleck Wilson of Elm Grove, Mrs. Albert Wilson being a daughter of Mrs. Maxwell, as is also the hostess Mrs. John Jenks. This making the family circle complete.
The dinner Sunday was a feast and greatly enjoyed and the afternoon was spent in visiting as only a family knows how, especially so as it has been some time since Mrs. Maxwell had had the privilege of having her three children all with her at the at one time.
Mrs. Linda Maxwell was born September 2, 1847 near Salina, Iowa, her maiden name being Linn. Her entire life has been spent here in Jefferson County, she being one of the pioneers. She can look back with great pride of the great changes that the years at brought forth. The yoke of oxen being supplanted by the airplane and the automobile.
Mrs. Maxwell lives on East Kirkland street and enjoys reasonable good health for one that has seen four score years of old Iowa.
OBITUARY
Mrs. Linda Maxwell
Mrs. Linda Maxwell was the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Linn. Born September 25,1847. At the early age of four years she was left an orphan, an uncle, John Linn took her into his home and later making her home with another relative. In 1822 she was united in married to James M. Maxwell and their home was continuously in Buchanan township on the farm until June 9, 1892 when the husband died at the early age of forty-one years, but Mrs. Maxwell bravely took upon herself the responsibility of life and reared her children to be honorable men and women. He next great blow was the death of the daughter ancestor, Viola, at the age of 17 which occurred only 14 months after the death of the husband and father. In the year 1886 she sold the home farm which was four miles east of the city and moved to Fairfield and it was here in her cottage at 501 E. Kirkwood street where she so quietly and peacefully without a struggle fell asleep, to be with her loved Savior after one week's illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell were the parents of five children, one little son, Harry, died January 12,1881 aged two years, and Viola passed away August 7,1893.
Those surviving are Mrs. John Jenks, east of the city, Ray of Ottumwa, and Mrs. Albert Wilson near Libertyville. Six grandchildren and three great grandchildren are left to mourn her departure.
Mrs. Maxwell was up a very quiet retiring disposition. She had all the qualities that made her a good wife, a kind mother and good obliging neighbor, and her home was hers sphere and to this she was greatly devoted and to her children, friends and neighbors but she is at rest after almost three score years and ten of earthly life.
MRS. MAXWELL is SUMMONED
Funeral Services Thursday at 4 O'clock from Hoskins Funeral Home
Mrs. Linda Maxwell, widow of James Maxwell, passed away at her home, 501 East Kirkwood street, at 9:30 o'clock this morning after being seriously ill for the past week.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock from the Hoskins Funeral Home in charge of Dr. U. S. Smith of the First Methodist church. Interment in Bethesda cemetery.
Mrs. Maxwell was preceded in death 39 years ago by her husband. She has made her home in Fairfield for the past 35 years. She was born September 25, 1847. The following children survive: Mrs. John Jenks of Fairfield, Mrs. Albert Wilson of Libertyville and Frank Ray Maxwell of Ottumwa.
JULY 1931
Services for Mrs. Maxwell
Last rites were held yesterday from Hoskins Funeral home
The last rites for Mrs. Linda Maxwell were held yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the Hoskins funeral home in charge of Dr. U. S. Smith of the First Methodist Church.
Miss Florence Johnson and Mrs. Cecil Whitaker sang "Nearer my God to thee", "Safe in the arms of Jesus" and "The City Four Square" with Mrs. Tressie McCormick at the piano.
The floral offerings were beautiful and profuse and showed the esteem in which Mrs. Maxwell was held by her many friends. The casket attendandts were Paul Jenks, Ray Maxwell, Bernard Graber, Darrell Whitaker, Ralph and Dall Green. She was laid to rest beside loved ones in the Bethesda cemetery.
DATED July 22, 1931
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1847 - 1931 (83 years)
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Harry Allen Maxwell, b. 30 Jan 1881, Jefferson County, Iowa, United States 
