Cunningham - Maxine Merrell
MAXINE MERRELL CUNNINGHAM
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 12 July 1963 p 4 -- typed by GA
Mrs. Hugo Merrell, Rt. 4, has returned from San Jose, Calif., where she was called by the serious illness and death of her daughter, Mrs. Maxine Cunningham. Memorial services for Mrs. Cunningham were conducted Saturday morning by Rev. Dr. Corwin H. Olds in the chapel of the Oak Hill Mortuary. Burial followed in Oak Hill Memorial Park at San Jose. Surviving besides the mother are the husband, Robert V. Cunningham; two sons, Mark and Steven; a daughter, Janet; three sisters and four brothers. A sister of Mrs. Cunningham, Mrs. Max Brown of Speedway City, accompanied Mrs. Merrell to California.
Mrs. Maxine Merrell Cunningham, 41, a former resident of Crawfordsville, died Thursday in San Jose, Calif. She had been in failing health for about nine months and had been seriously ill for two weeks. Mrs. Cunningham was born Sept. 7, 1921, in Elmdale had had graduated from Crawfordsville High School in 1939. After marrying Robert V. Cunningham in Crawfordsville, she and her husband lived in Lafayette before moving to San Jose about nine years ago. Surviving besides her husband, are three children, Mary 16, Janet, 14, and Steven, 22 months; her mother, Mrs. Bessie Merrell; three sisters, Mrs. Louise Fox, Detroit, Mrs. Margaret Brown, Speedway, and Mrs. Ann Myers, Waynetown, and four brothers, Donald, Robert and Maurice Merrell, all of Crawfordsville, and Eugene Merrell of Fresno, Calif. Funeral services and burial will be in San Jose.