Seventeenth Generation

1716. Maxine Clare VANDERVORT (`) (~) was born on 19 March 1945 in Sparta, Sparta Township, Monroe County, WI.^{313,625,1088,1305} She graduated in 1963 in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.^1276,1277 from Tomah High School. She died on 10 August 2019 at the age of 74 in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.¹³⁰⁵

Obituary Notes: "Maxine Claire (Vandervort) Musselman died on Saturday August 10, 2019 at Serenity House in Tomah, Wisconsin after a long struggle with a congenital heart defect and renal disease. Maxine and her twin sister, Val Jean, were born in Sparta, Wisconsin on March 19, 1945. Maxine attended Kirby State Grade School and graduated from Tomah High School in 1963. After high school, she worked in La Crosse, Wisconsin as a typist and later, at the Northwest Telephone Company, as an operator. She married Dennis Alvin Musselman February 11, 1967 at the Tomah Congregational Church. They lived in Columbus, Mississippi and Warner Robins, Georgia while Dennis was in the Air Force, after which they settled in Roanoke, Virginia. They lived in Roanoke for the rest of their married life. There Maxine served as a teacher’s aide and daycare worker. She was known to children as “the story lady”. Maxine was a devout Christian. As a member of Thrasher Memorial Church in Vinton, Virginia, and the First United Methodist Church in Tomah, she was involved in many outreach programs, including Emmaus. She was also a gifted embroiderer and baker of cakes and made possibly the best coleslaw in the Northern Hemisphere, at the very least. She loved her family very much.
Maxine was predeceased by her parents, Lawrence and Leone Vandervort; her husband, Dennis; her grandparents, Mary Clay Vandervort and Floyd and Nita Purdy; brother-in-law Dennis Classey; sister-in-law Wendy Russell Vandervort; many uncles, aunts and cousins and in-laws.
Surviving her are her daughter and son-in-law, Tiffany and Andrew Trent; two grandchildren, Lili and Julian Trent; beloved twin Val Classey; brother Bruce Vandervort; sister and brother-in-law Janelle and Ken Dvorak; nieces and nephews Will and Conor Dvorak; Lucy Vandervort and daughter Catherine; Nick Vandervort; Mark Cottingham and children Chris and Raissa; and Emily Cottingham and her daughters Stella and Kim.
A Memorial Service will be held on Friday, August 16, 2019, 12 Noon, at the First United Methodist Church, 1105 Butts Ave. Pastor Krysta Deede will officiate. Burial will be in the LaGrange Cemetery. Relatives and friends are invited to call at the church on Friday from 10:00 A.M. Until the time of the service."

. Maxine lived in Roanoke, Roanoke County, VA.

Maxine Clare VANDERVORT (`) (~) and Dennis Alvin MUSSELMAN were married on 11 February 1967 in Tomah, Tomah Township, Monroe County, WI.^625,818,1089 Dennis Alvin MUSSELMAN was born on 15 July 1943 in Roanoke, Roanoke County, VA.¹⁰⁸⁹ He died on 23 February 2004 at the age of 60 in Roanoke, Roanoke County, VA.¹³⁰⁶

Maxine Clare VANDERVORT (`) (~) and Dennis Alvin MUSSELMAN had the following children: