Loree Maddux

Loree Maddux, 83 of Kearney died Sunday, July 10, 2011 at Mother Hull Home in Kearney. Services will be 10:30 AM, Friday July 15th at O’Brien Straatmann Funeral Home in Kearney. The Rev. Eric Lesher and Major Gloria Stepke will officiate. Inurnment will be in the Kearney Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the Red Cross Disaster Fund. On-line condolences may be submitted to osafh.com. O’Brien Straatmann Funeral Home in Kearney is in charge of arrangements. Loree was born July 7, 1928 in Milburn, OK to John F. and Grace (Maeyers) Williams. She graduated high school at Salina, KS. She attended McCook Community College and Kearney State College. She was married to Eugene H. Maddux on October 29, 1961 at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Salina. While Eugene was an officer in the US Air Force, she volunteered at various Air Force bases and community organizations and was elected as the Officer’s Wives Club representative to the BX Board as well as multi-terms as the Officer’s Wives Club Representative on the Commissary Board. She was also active at various base hospitals as a Red Cross volunteer and military Family Service. They lived in various places including, Plattsburg and Syracuse, NY, Atwater, CA, Shreveport, LA and Wauneta, NE. While living in the Kearney area she was active in various local and state organizations and was Buffalo County Republican State Committeewoman for several years and was Vice Chairman of the Congressional Third District serving as the Vice Chairman with Chairman, Merlin Carlson. She was also active in the Kearney and Lancaster Red Cross Chapters. She also served as a Red Cross National Disaster Volunteer and went on more than forty national disasters on the mainland, Puerto Rico and Hawaii. She also worked in the volunteer program at Good Samaritan Hospital. She was a past member of First Lutheran Church in Kearney. Survivors include son, Peter Glen Maddux and wife, Cyndy of Lincoln, daughters, Susan C. Lynch and husband, Chandler of Kearney, Cathy L. England and husband, Michael of Gibbon and Peggy A. Haslam and husband, George of Moreno Valley, CA. She is also survived by 4 grandchildren. She was preceded in death by parents, husband, brothers, David, Maurice, Elton and Roger, stepbrothers, Bob and Chet Hein.

Loree Maddux

July 7, 1928 - July 10, 2011