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Mildred M. Maddox

d. September 19, 2005

Mildred Marie Maddox (nee Goble) passed peacefully from this life on September 19 at Fairview, Michigan, at age 92 years one month 13 days. Born August 6, 1913 near Puxico in Stoddard Co., MO, she lived a long and fulfilling life, despite the fact that she was unable to go to school past the eighth grade. In the 1930s she and husband, Ulys Tucker Maddox, owned a grocery store in St. Louis, MO. Moving to Dearborn, Michigan, she began a series of businesses, the first of which was custom slipcovers and draperies. In the mid-1950s she became a real estate sales agent, and in 1957 purchased Dearborn Valley Real Estate and Insurance Agency. In 1965 she bought Mil-Crest Restaurant in Warren, MI. In 1970 she bought Northwood Motel in Mio, MI. Following that she won a new automobile in Florida for her Tupperware sales. During the American bi-centennial of 1976, one of her self-designed quilts hung in the governor�s mansion in Florida. She also won awards for her hand-made antique-reproduction dolls. Another hobby was genealogy wherein she learned her "roots.� Her ancestor, Thomas Goble, came from a French Huguenot family that fled France during the Massacre of 1562, and settled in England. A year after Boston, MA, was begun, Thomas Goble brought his family there in 1630. He eventually bought land in Concord where years later the "shot was heard around the world� that began the American Revolutionary War. After surviving several Indian attacks, a later generation went to Charleston, SC in the late 1600s, but there they had to contend with occasional pirates. Next the family went to New Jersey where Mildred�s ancestor started the Baptist church, a relatively new denomination in the early 1700s. The next generation went to the wilds of western PA where her ancestor fought in the Revolutionary War. Future generations started Baptist churches in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Indiana over the next century. In Missouri, she and parents, Frank and Bertha Wills Goble, became members of the Church of Christ in Butler County some 75 years ago. This interest in religion passed on to Mildred who taught a Ladies Bible Class in Dearborn, Michigan, for eleven years, and for shorter periods of time in other locations. She has read her Bible cover to cover many times, doing so the first thing every morning for well over sixty years. Mildred Goble Maddox was predeceased by her parents, husband Tucker Maddox in 1973, grandson Kenneth Blake Maddox in 1994, three brothers and four sisters. She is survived by sister Pauline VanHooser of Jonesboro, AR, and her brother Garland Goble of Stockbridge, MI. She is also survived by her four children Norma Elvera Brown of Plymouth, MI, Ruth Virginia Maxwell of Comins, MI, Kenneth Farrell Maddox of Tucson, AZ, Katheryn Carol Haddad of Windsor, Ontario, and numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Viewing is to be at Green Funeral Home, Atlanta, MI, 4:00 to 9:00 PM on September 21. A second viewing will be September 23 4:00 to 9:00 PM at Watkins and Son Funeral Home, Puxico, MO, with the funeral the next day at 11:00 AM officiated by George Allison. Internment will be at Rock Hill Cemetery, Puxico, Stoddard Co., MO. Memorials may be sent to Atlanta Church of Christ for church planting in Pietoski, MI, or to Shults-Lewis Children and Family Services, Valparaiso, IN.
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