KLONDIKE - Sibyl Hooten Staggs Maxwell, 95, died May 21, 2020.
She was born in Klondike on March 5, 1925, the seventh of nine children born to Carl and Rose Ella Hooten.
You cannot sum up 95 years of a well-lived life in a paragraph. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and a great-great grandmother.
She was a devout Christian woman who lived every day of her life according to God's word, as she understood it.
She wanted everyone to know the Lord as their personal Savior. If you knew Sibyl, you loved her and she loved you.
She always saw the best in everyone. Her family's nickname for her was "Pollyanna" and she was known for her wit and sense of humor. She believed that "the task that lies ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us."
Preceding her in death was her husband of nearly 50 years, Bert Harvey Maxwell; her parents and her siblings.
Left behind to cherish her memory are her children: Junie Staggs Chambers and husband Richard, Janie Staggs Pruitt, Cindy Maxwell Grubbs and husband Joey and Jeff Maxwell and his wife P-Nut; nine grandchildren; 20 great grandchildren and 10 great-great grandchildren.
Funeral services were May 27, at Brown's Chapel of the Fountains.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be made to Sibyl's favorite charity: The Gideons International, PO Box 97251, Washington, DC 20090-7251 or Gideons.org.
Services were entrusted to Brown Funeral Directors, Borger.