Lela (Gist) Maxwell

Submitted by: Sue Hearon

Lela (Gist) Maxwell, 95, of Spiro, passed away Sunday, April 21, 2002. She was born June 13, 1906 at Dora, Ark. to Butler Brooks and Oklahoma Branham Winn.

She was a homemaker, a member of the Church of Christ of Tucker, she was baptized in 1945.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands, John Gist and Rye Maxwell; two daughters, Mattie Mallay and Euna Sutter; two sisters, Willie Posey and Irene Adams; five brothers, Claude, George, Ben, Clifford and Clyde Winn; one grandchild, Roger Gist; and one great-grandchild, Madison Finn.

Survivors include four daughters, Della Davis of Arvin, Calif., Alice Gibson of Shawnee; two stepdaughters, Berdice Dyer of Webbers Falls and Treva Hamilton of Fort Gibson; four sons, Frank Gist of Spiro, J.D. Gist, Bob Gist and Butler Gist, all of Cowlington; two stepsons, Bob Maxwell and Jim Maxwell, both of Webbers Falls; two sisters, Grace Lovell of Grand Rapids, Mich. and Ruth Stamper of Stigler; numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildern and great-great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 24 at the Tucker Church of Christ with Mr. Taylor Joyce officiating. Burial will follow in Short Mountain Cemetery under the direction of Mallory Funeral Home of Spiro. Pallbearers will be her grandsons.