Maxine Martha "Maxine" DeBord, formerly of Orleans, Nebraska, died Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, at Beatrice Health and Rehab, Beatrice, Nebraska. Maxine was born April 22, 1916, five miles south of Trenton in Hitchcock County, Nebraska, one of five daughters born to James Thomas and Lillian Olive (Miller) Hunter.
Her father, James died in February 1920 due to the 1918 influenza epidemic. After her father's death, her mother moved the family to Orleans, Nebraska to live with her parents, Danial R. and Delana C. (Finney) Miller.
As a child, Maxine was baptized in the Methodist faith in Orleans, Nebraska with her aunt and uncle, Ednie and Hattie Miller as sponsors. She attended school in Orleans, Nebrska, except for the 8th grade, when she studied at Spring Brook School, a country school south of Orleans, Nebraska.
After her education, Maxine lived in Fairbury, Nebraska from 1934 to 1959, during which time she married A. C. "Bud" Otto and was blessed with two daughters: Deloris and Virginia. Maxine later married Frank E. DeBord and was again blessed with daughters: Katherine, Patricia and Mary Ann. Maxine and Frank were married for 29 years until his death in 1976. Maxine moved to Beatrice, Nebraska in 1983 to be close to daughter, Virginia (Otto) and son-in-law, Lawrence Hagemeier.
Maxine enjoyed crafts, sewing, cooking, traveling, reading, walking, garage sales and writing letters to friends and family.
Maxine was preceded in death by: parents; husband, Frank DeBord; daughters: Katherine Jane (DeBord) Holliday, Mary Ann (DeBord) Ward; sisters: Blanch Viles, Agnes Russell and Irene Perry; grandson, Greg A. McCord and granddaughter, Valerie Lewandowski.
Maxine is survived by, daughters, Deloris Dickenson and Virginia Hagemeier and her husband, Lawrence all of Beatrice, Nebraska, Patricia Poole and her husband, Paul of Aurora, Colorado; many loving grandchildren; great-grandchildren; and great-great grandchildren; sister, Pauline Bantam of Alma, Nebraska and a host of family and friends.
Interment was in the Orleans Cemetery, Orleans, Nebraska.
Published in Kearney Hub on August 19, 2013 (findagrave.com)