Roy Elmer Maxey – WHS Class of 1937 – August 13, 1939

Roy Elmer Maxey

Winslow Alumni Class of 1937

August 13, 1939

ROY ELMER MAXEY, born November 21, 1919, death August 13, 1939

Graduate of WHS Class of 1937

Roy was killed while attending National Guard Training at Ft. Knox, KY, along

with his brother Paul and four others, by an Artillery Shell that exploded while

being disassembled.

He was survived by a wife, Isabel Doerner Maxey and son, Joseph Roy,

of Oakland City,  parents, Elmer and Mabel Williams Maxey,of Pike

County,  sisters, Evelyn Julian of Princeton, and Betty L., Hazel, and

Thelma at home., a number of aunts, uncles, and cousins.

He was buried at Montgomery Cemetery in Oakland City, IN.