Joyce Jennings Maxwell

Joyce Jennings Maxwell, 81, died Friday, March 13, 2009, at Windcrest Alzheimer's Care Center in Abilene. Funeral services will be 3 p.m. Monday at Hamil Family Funeral Home Chapel , 6449 Buffalo Gap Road, with Gary Montgomery officiating. Burial will be in Clyde Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Born in Inadale, Texas, on August 27, 1927, she was the daughter of Edna Zell (Coleman) and Jess Authornal Jennings. Joyce was a 1945 graduate of Clyde High School, and married M. B. Maxwell in Clyde on August 7, 1945. She was a homemaker and a member of Baker Heights Church of Christ in Abilene. She had been a volunteer at Hendrick Medical Center and a teachers aide at Sands Elementary School in Ackerly, Texas. Her parents; a daughter-in-law, Penny Maxwell; and a brother, Wilford "Bill" Jennings, preceded her in death Joyce is survived by her husband, M. B. Maxwell of Abilene; sons, Lynn Maxwell of Abilene and Kynn Maxwell and wife, Jan, of Midland; sisters, Lela Scarbrough of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Leta Barton of Ft. Hancock, Texas, and Wilma Wilson of Allen, Texas; five grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Memorials may be made to Hospice of the Big Country, 4601 Hartford, Abilene, TX 79605; or Huntington's Disease Society of America, PO Box 270261, Flower Mound, TX 75027.