Maxine Julia Colby

Beloved wife and mother, Maxine Julia Colby, 87, passed away at her home in Grants Pass on June 25, 2007.

No services are planned at this time. Hull & Hull Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements.

Maxine was born August 3, 1919 in Montrose, Colorado, to William Henry and Catherine Barnes. Her childhood was spent in Colorado and Oregon. After raising three children and being widowed, she married Elvin Colby, on September 22, 1962 in Durango, Colorado. In July of the following year they moved to Grants Pass, where she enjoyed being a homemaker and was highly regarded as a teacher’s aide for seventeen years.

She enjoyed decorating her home, traveling, ballroom dancing and flowers.

She is survived by: Elvin Colby, her husband of forty-four years; a daughter, Linda Davis, of Greeley, Colorado; six grandchildren, including Zack Swartz, of Eagle Point, who was raised by Maxine and Elvin; and Mark Pagels of Grants Pass; eight great-grandchildren; her sisters, Eloise Clark of Fruita, Colorado and Rose Kreis of Wichita, Kansas. She is also survived by three step-daughters: Kay McKissor, Rita Robins and Linda Foukas of Tucson, Arizona; thirteen step grandchildren and fifteen step great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, Tom Swartz and a daughter, Gwen Swartz Setsodie and her brother LaVerne Barnes of Pierce, Arizona.