PEACH, Maxwell E. 1974-1982
PEACH, MCNAMEE, FRANK, SANDY, GEISSLER
Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 9/12/2014 at 00:03:34
[Waterloo Courier, Friday, November 5, 1982, Waterloo, Iowa]
Services for Maxwell E. Peach, 7, of 79 Lane St., will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church with burial in the Garden of Last Supper Section at Garden of Memories Cemetery. He died Tuesday afternoon at Schoitz Medical Center. The cause of death is pending an autopsy report.
He was born Nov. 12, 1974, son of Patricia and Gregory Frank McNamee. He was a second grade student at McKinstry Elementary School.
Survivors include his parents; a brother, Scott at home; a stepsister, Mandy McNamee of Oquawka, Ill; maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin S. Frank Sr. of 2204 Rainbow Drive; maternal great-grandmother, Mrs. Anna Geissler of the Cedar Falls Health Care Center; maternal great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Hans Frank of 652 Conger St.; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William McNamee of Oquawka, Ill.; and paternal great-grandmother, Mrs. Mary Sandy of Albuquerque, N. M.
Friends may call at Chapel East Mortuary from noon to 9 p.m. Sunday and for an hour preceding services Monday.
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[Adapted from Waterloo Courier, Friday, November 5, 1982, Waterloo, Iowa]Waterloo first grader Scott Peach went to school Friday, but be didn't ride the bus.
He said the death of his 7-year-old brother, Maxwell, means he's "not going to ride the bus anymore."
Scott's mother, Patricia McNamee of 79 Lane St., agree* with her 6-year-old. The grief-stricken woman Mid her oldest son might not have died if he hadn't been "beaten up" last week while riding the school bus home from McKinstry Elementary School.
The death of Maxwell, who died Wednesday at School Medical Center, and the injuries he allegedly received during a scuffle on the bus Oct. 25 have resulted in an investigation by police and the county medical examiner's office.
The cause of death was internal cerebral hemorrhage, according Dr. Albert Dolan, chief county medical examiner.
"There's absolutely no way at this time it (cause of death) can be determined if this was from trauma or spontaneous hemorrhage," he said Friday.
A final determination will not be known for two weeks until tests on brain tissue are completed, he said. The youth had been experiencing headaches, according to his mother. But doctors concluded after examining Maxwell early last week there was no sign of serious injury.
Tuesday morning, about a week after the altercation, Ms. McNamee went upstairs to get her son ready for school. She said Maxwell had "collapsed upstairs."
Ms. McNamee believes the blood clot Maxwell Peach was a result of a bump on the bead, which Maxwell suffered 12 days ago.
She said two students riding the bus Oct. 25 roughed up her son, leaving him with a lump on his head, ink marks on his face and a footprint-shaped mark on his forehead.
Ms. McNamee said if better discipline was maintained on school bus 109 her son would be alive today. "This is the second son of mine who was beaten up on the bus," the tearful woman said Thursday from her modest Lane Street home. "That's just a very, very poorly supervised bus."
Scott was involved in a skirmish on the bus in September, she said. Ms. McNamee's sorrow is coupled with anger. "How safe are the other kids on the bus?" she asks. "If it took my boy's life, how many others will it take before something is done?"
Some residents in the neighborhood agree with Ms. McNamee. They say there's a lack of discipline on the bus that transports children to McKinstry.
The family moved to Waterloo from Oquawka, Ill., this summer, and the fall term at McKinstry was Maxwell's first in Waterloo schools.
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