Clara Mae Weems Maxwell

Clara Mae Weems Maxwell

June 1, 2014

Clara Mae Weems Maxwell, 82, of Whigham, Ga., passed away at her home in Grady County, Ga., on Sunday, June 1, 2014.

Funeral services for Clara Mae Weems Maxwell will be at 11:00 a.m., Friday, June 6, 2014, at the Chapel of Clark Funeral Home, Cairo, Ga..  Interment will be in Tired Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Whigham, Ga.

Active pallbearers will be Erik Elderdice, Lauren Butler, Weldon Whigham, Alvin Thomas, Jonathan Weems and La Don Butler.  An honorary pallbearer will be Jerry Maxwell.

Mrs. Maxwell was born on March 18, 1932, in Phil Campbell, to the late James Barton Weems and Nancy Canzader Weems.  On Dec. 5, 1964, she married William Robert Maxwell, who survives.  She was a homemaker and of the Missionary Baptist faith.

Survivors include: her husband, William Robert Maxwell of Whigham, Ga.; daughter, Lou Ann Elderdice and husband, Gordon, of St. Augustine, Fla.; grandchildren, Janie Elderdice of Orlando, Fla., Erik Elderdice of Tampa, Fla., Carson Elderdice of St. Augustine, Fla.; and a brother, Riley Weems and wife, Mary, of Lake Placid, Fla.

She was preceded in death by: her parents; sister, Lucille Lyday; and brothers, Clyde Weems and Charles Weems.

The family will receive friends at Clark Funeral Home on Thursday, June 5, 2014, from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.