"Mary Marie Maxey
1913-2003
Funeral services for Mary Marie (Dart) Maxey, 90, Edwardsville, KS, are Saturday, December
20, 2003, at 2:00 p.m. at Farris-Feuerborn Memorial Chapel with Rev. Gary Benjamin officiating.
Interment is in Garnett Cemetery. Mrs. Maxey died Monday, December 15, at Edwardsville Park
Care Center.
The family will greet friends on Saturday from 1:00-2:00 p.m. prior to the service.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice and left in care of the funeral home.
Farris-Feuerborn Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements."
"Mary Marie Maxey
1913-2003
Funeral services for Mary Marie Maxey, nee Mary Marie Dart, 90, Edwardsville, KS, were
Saturday, December 20, 2003, at 2:00 p.m. at Farris-Feuerborn Memorial Chapel with Rev. Gary
Benjamin officiating. Interment was in Garnett Cemetery. Mrs. Maxey died Monday, December
15, at Edwardsville Park Care Center, Edwardsville, KS.
Mary Marie Maxey was born April 7, 1913, to loving parents LuDell and Ebenezer S. Dart on a
farm near Blue Mound, KS. She had one brother and nine sisters. Later the family moved to
Garnett, where she completed high school. Noted for her penmanship, she won honors from the
state.
She met Ernest M. Maxey and after a courtship, they were married May 2, 1931. The union was
blessed with four children, Ernest Edward, Bertha Jean, Stanley Malvin, and Vernon Wayne.
During World War II, the family moved to Kansas City where both parents worked at the Fairfax
Plant where the B-25 bomber was being made. Mary went to trade school and then went to work
as a riveter on the nose section of the bomber.
In 1951, she went to work for the International Paper Company. Through her hard work, she
became the chief inspector in the quality control area. Her work in the union earned her the
reputation for shrewd bargaining, with the plant having one more paid holiday than the rest of the
company. She was known to be fair and would go toe-to-toe with the plant management for the
union people. She retired from the company in 1976 after 25 years of service.
During her working years, Mary raised her family, working long hours after returning home,
cooking, sewing clothing, and making sure the children's school homework was done—all the
things a good housewife and mother is expected to do.
On May 2, 1981, Mary and Ernest celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. She loved her
husband with a love as only a true marriage should be, a true example to her children and the
world. Mary loved to fish and would out-fish most of the men. The high point of the year for her
was to take her sisters in their camper fishing at Beaver Lake. She loved to camp out with the
family and went on many trips, both hunting and fishing. Making trips to see her son in the
military was often combined into fishing trips. They would, at the drop of a hat, hook up the boat
to the camper and be off to Melvern Lake or any of the lakes within 200 miles of Garnett.
Father's Day or Mother's Day would find them in a campground with their children and
grandchildren. Both Mary and Ernest liked to travel and often included sisters, sisters-in-law and
their husbands for trips covering the western U.S. In 1990, Ernest died after a long fight with
cancer. Mary's health was failing and was persuaded to sell her home in Garnett and moved to
Edwardsville, where she lived in 1998. In 1997, she lost her sight due to macular degeneration,
followed by a severe heart attack. On advice of the doctors, Mary was moved into the Parkway
Care Home.
Mrs. Maxey was also prededed in death by her parents, Ebenezer and LuDell Dart.
Mary is survived by her sons, Ernest E. Maxey, Overland Park, KS, Stanley M. Maxey, and
Vernon W. Maxey, both of Kansas City, KS; her daughter, Bertha Jean Hackathorn,
Edwardsville, KS; her sisters, Blanche Brady, Kansas City, MO, Vivian Haynes, Garnett, and
Bernadine Tinsley, Wellsville, KS; 14 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren, and six
great-great-grandchildren.
The family greeted friends on Saturday from 1:00-2:00 p.m. prior to the service.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice and left in care of the funeral home.
Farris-Feuerborn Memorial Chapel was in charge of arrangements."