Mrs. May Maxson, matron of Goodrich hall, Milton college, from 1923 to 1934, died Friday night, Jan. 15th, in her home at Oak Park, Ill. Funeral services were held in the Milton S. D. B. church, Monday afternoon, Rev. Carroll L. Hill, Dr. Edwin Shaw and Pres. J. W. Crofoot taking part. Burial was in Milton cemetery. Pallbearers were Milton college professors, L. C. Shaw, L. W. Hulett, J. N. Daland, D. N. Inglis, C. F. Oakley and W. D. Burdick.
May, daughter of Ira J. and Eliza Ann Clarke Ordway, was born Mar. 19, 1857, in West Edmeston, N. Y. The family came to Chicago in 1871 and a few years later she attended Milton college. In 1884 she married J. Murray Maxson who preceded her in death. They had no children.
She was a devoted member of the Chicago Seventh Day Baptist church and probably a charter member of the church which was constituted in 1883.
She was a homemaker and during her residence in Chicago she was noted for her hospitality. That characteristic endeared her to the girls who lived with her in Goodrich hall and they and many others addressed her as 'Auntie May.'
