Maxine Houston, 80, of Murray, died at 9:07 p.m. Saturday, August 7, 2010 at Hickory Woods Retirement Center.
Funeral services will be held today, Tuesday, August 10 at 2 p.m. at the J.H. Churchill Funeral Home with Bro. Hal Shipley officiating. Burial will be in the Murray Memorial Gardens. Online condolences can be left at www.thejhchurchillfuneralhome.com
Houston was a homemaker and attended Murray Training School. She was a member of the Locust Grove Baptist Church. Houston was also a member of the adult womens' sunday school class and the W.M.U. She was born Dec. 22, 1929 in Calloway Co. She had volunteered at Need Line for over 10 years and was a very avid MSU basketball and St. Louis Cardinals fan.
Survivors include her daughter, Annette Baccus (Lindsey) of Cadiz, Ky., two sons, Phil Houston and his wife, Lisa, of Springfield, Tenn., Rex Houston of Murray; two grandchildren, April Haneline Tybor of Denver, Co., and Amanda Haneline Hopper of Nashville, Tenn., one great grandchild, Chloe Layne Hopper of Nashville. She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold Houston; parents, Walter and Estell Evans Elkins, two sisters, Rozzella Williams, and Shirley Grey Elkins.