Maxine E. (LEWIS) CLARK

LEWIS, CLARK, TREVETT, OLSON, HINDERMAN, KEPHART, NEUSCHWENGAR, TRUDO, MOORE, JACOBS

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/23/2012 at 01:34:15

Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo, Iowa
November, 2003

MAXINE E. CLARK

MASON CITY - Maxine E. CLARK, 87, of Mason City, died Thursday (Feb. 26, 2004) at the I.O.O.F. Home in Mason City.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the First Baptist Church, 125 E. State St., Mason City, with the Rev. Ron STEIN officiating. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery.

Memorials may be directed to Hospice of North Iowa or the First Baptist Church.

Visitation will be held one hour prior to service time at the church on Monday.

Maxine E. Lewis was born June 28, 1916, the daughter of Burdette "Curly" and Avis E. (TREVETT) LEWIS in Mason City. She began school in Kanawha and attended the Mason City public school system, graduating from Mason City High School in 1934.

Following her graduation, she worked for J.C. Penney from 1934 to 1935. Maxine then became the first student at LaJames Beauty College in 1936. In 1936, she joined her mother at the Family Beauty Salon, where she later worked with her daughter, Sharon.

Maxine E. LEWIS was united in marriage to Eugene E. CLARK on May 8, 1948, in Faribault, Minn.

She was a lifetime and faithful member of the First Baptist Church in Mason City, where Maxine was also a member of the former Y.W.A. Circle and held a Cradle Roll Card.

She was also a former mem-ber of the National Cosmetology Association and the Pilot Club.

Maxine is survived by her daughter, Sharon L. OLSON, of Mason City; granddaughter, Candy HINDERMAN, of Mason City; grandson, Todd J. KEPHART, of Mason City; three great-grandchildren, Sarah KEPHART, Tyler NEUSCHWENGAR and Holly Hinderman; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Kip TRUDO and wife, Ruth, of Mason City, and nephews, Clark TRUDO, of Illinois, and Clifford "Kip" TRUDO, of Nashville, Tenn.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Eugene; son-in-law, Richard OLSON; grandson-in-law, Greg HINDERMAN; two aunts, Nina MOORE and Eva JACOBS, and two uncles, Clyde and Allison TREVETT.

Major Erickson Funeral Home & Crematory, (641) 423-0924.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2012