Maxine Hale

VANDUSER - Maxine M. Hale, 82, died at 10:41 a.m. March 30, 2004, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.

Born Aug. 8, 1921, in Tiptonville, Tenn., daughter of the late Fred Mack and Nadas Mae Stevens Jones, she was a member of the Vanduser Baptist Church.

On Oct. 5, 1940, at Benton, she married Jack Hale who preceded her in death on Sept. 16, 1992.

Survivors include: one son, Rodney Hale of Sikeston; four daughters, Nadas Drew and Charlotte Hale of Vanduser, Bonnie Vincent of Shreveport, la., and Debbie Freeman of Jefferson City; one brother, Billy Mack Jones of Memphis, Tenn.; four sisters, Shirley Marshall of Kingman, Ariz., Imogene Hudson and Carolyn Jones of Houston, Texas, and Glenda Foxworth of Virginia Beach, Va.; and eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Also preceding her in death were one son, Roger Hale; one brother, Richard Jones; her stepmother, Frances Sue Jones; one granddaughter-in-law, Tressie Drew; and one great-granddaughter, Maxine Drew.

Visitation is from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston where services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday. Dan Richardson, minister of the Vanduser Church of Christ, and the Rev. Glenn Rogers, pastor of the Vanduser Baptist Church, will officiate.

Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery in Sikeston.