Maxine S Hester

Memorial service: 11 a.m. Wednesday at Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel in Fort Worth.

Memorials: In lieu of flowers, the family request a gift be made in Maxine's name to the Brooke Hester Donation Fund at any Wells Fargo Bank. Brooke is a precious 3 year old girl undergoing serious medical treatment at Driscoll Children's Medical Hospital in Corpus Christi and is Maxine's great-great-niece.

Maxine was born Dec. 8, 1920, in the Selden community in Erath County to Alex and Norma Sublett. She graduated from Stephenville High School and Tarleton State College. She married Garth B. Hester on Feb. 21, 1942, in Muskogee, Okla.

Maxine worked for the Fort Worth Press, Yearbook Encyclopedia and Avon Products. She was a homemaker, loving wife and mother, and a friend to many people. She professed Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior and was a faithful member of Handley Baptist Church for over 50 years.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Garth B. Hester; parents; and brothers, Ivan, Tommie, Alex Wayne and Don Sublett.

Survivors: Daughter, Beverly Z. Sims and her husband, Jimmy, of Fort Worth; son, Jerry G. Hester and his wife, Martha, of Waco; sisters-in-law, Beverly Hester of Fort Worth and Pauline Sublett of Searcy, Ark; brother-in-law, Jay N. Hester of Fort Worth; several nieces and nephews; and her special health care provider for the past three years, Rosemary Suarez.

Arrangements under the direction of Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery, Fort Worth, TX.