Horace Lee Maxwell

COOKEVILLE -- Funeral services for Horace Lee Maxwell, 72, of Baxter, will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6, from the chapel of Dyer Funeral Home. Burial, with full military honors, will be in Maxwell Cemetery South. The family will receive friends from 7-8 p.m. today, Thursday, Dec. 4, and from 5-8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 5, at the funeral home. Mr. Maxwell died Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008, at his residence. He was born Feb. 27, 1936, in Baxter to the late Oakley and Zella Mae Mires Maxwell. Mr. Maxwell was a member of Silver Point Church of Christ. He was retired from the Air Force as a Chief Master Sergeant after 28 years of serving the Air Force. Chief Master Sergeant is the highest rank for an enlisted man. He then retired again from the state of California after 13 years of service. His family includes his wife, Jackie Parrish Maxwell; two daughters, Linda Maxwell of Rancho Cordova, Calif., and Carolyn Burke of Sacramento, Calif.; a son, Terry Lee Maxwell of Sacramento; two stepsons, James D. Edgemon Jr. of Hixson and Kenneth Lee Edgemon of Jasper; three brothers and two sisters-in-law, Silas and Jewel Maxwell of Moshiem, Nelson Maxwell of Portland, Ore., and Alton and Debbie Maxwell of Nashville; two sisters, Pearl Huffman of Moshiem and Flossie Maxwell of Nashville; eight grandchildren, Gerald, Brittni, Jeremy, Maddie, Jannel, Lidell, Jamal and Davin; and one great-grandchild, Lucy Franklin. Memorial donations may be made to the ALS Foundation of Tennessee, Compassionate Friends Cookeville Chapter or the Veterans Honor Guard of Cookeville. Bros. John Whitson and Norman Parish will officiate at the services.