Dorothy Sarah Toomey Maxwell
Breckenridge American Newspaper – Date unknown
Dorothy Toomey Maxwell, 88, died Tues., Oct 21, 1989 at a Fort Worth hospital.
Services were held at 11 a.m., Fri., Nov. 3, at First United Methodist Church
with the Rev. Dr. Kent Marrs officiating. Burial was in Breckenridge Cemetery,
directed by Melton Funeral Home.
Born Dorothy Sarah Toomey, July 2, 1901, in Dallas, she married Earnest Maxwell
on June 23, 1929, in Dallas. He died July 10, 1979.
She was educated in the Dallas public schools and received a B.A. Degree in
mathematics from Southern Methodist University with a teachers certificate. She
later received a Master’s Degree in education from Hardin Simmons University.
She moved to Breckenridge in 1926 where she taught school for 26 years. She
moved to Fort Worth in 1986. She was a member of the First United Methodist
Church, Morning Wesley Bible class, Breckenridge Woman’s Forum, Woman’s Club,
Daughters of the American Revolution and the Retired Teachers Association.
Survivors include a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Mayer of Fort Worth; a son, Ernest
Prescott Maxwell of Concord, Calif.; two sisters, Mary Toomey Tomkins and Anna
Prescott Toomey, both of Dallas; a brother, Eugene James Toomey of Dallas; five
grandchildren, Sandra Kay Hope and Pamela Prescott Maxwell, both of Sacramento,
Calif., James Scott Mayer of Taylor, Clifford Kyle Mayer and Michael Prescott
Mayer, both of Ft. Worth; and six great-grandchildren, Matthew Kyle Mayer, Sara
Elizabeth Mayer, and Laura Anne Mayer, all of Fort Worth, Katherine Diane Mayer
and James Daniel Mayer of Taylor, and Victoria Marie Hope of Sacramento, Calif.
Pallbearers were James Scott Mayer, Clifford Kyle Mayer, Michael Prescott Mayer,
Robert N. Maxwell, Charles Gilbert and Rev. Henry C. Mayer.
Memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church and may be left at
the funeral home.
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