Maxine (Breedlove) Cox

Maxine Breedlove Cox was surrounded by loved ones when she died peacefully in her home on

Sunday, July 26, 2015. Maxine was born January 16, 1930 in Coffeeville, Mississippi. She

attended Delta State Teachers College and The University of Mississippi until she left during

her senior year to marry Jessie Lynn Cox of Water Valley, Mississippi, with whom she would

share 61 years of marriage. They married on January 29, 1950, and moved to Memphis,

Tennessee where she was employed by Lewis Supply Company. Jessie was transferred to

Florence, Alabama in 1953 and the two of them made their home there together until Jessie’s

death in 2011. In Florence, Maxine worked for the Dixie Supply Company until her first child

was born and she decided to become a stay‐at‐home wife and mother.

Maxine’s family brought her great joy and she loved spending time with her children,

grandchildren and great grandchildren making memories while fishing together, quacking for

ducks to come for a visit, playing paper dolls and board games, eating monkey bread or

sharing her love of sewing beautiful clothing and cross stitching. She loved hummingbirds,

beautiful flowers, dancing with her grandchildren in the kitchen to Boots Randolph and

listening to “Tie a yellow ribbon round that ole oak tree,” her favorite song. Maxine spent her

life building connections with the people she loved whether it was through sending long

letters, road trips to Mississippi or eating her legendary biscuits during Sunday lunch every

week after church. She was amazing in every way and will be missed, terribly.

Maxine was a charter member of Woodmont Baptist Church, where she held many important

positions. She was also a past member of the Kennedy Douglas Art Center and the Salvation

Army Auxiliary. She was preceded in death by her parents, Christel Breedlove and Maifred

Upchurch Breedlove, her loving husband of 61 years, Jessie Lynn Cox, and her son in law Henry

Cooper (Hank) Standard, III.

She is survived by daughter Sandra Cox Johnson and husband Mike, son Robert Lynn Cox

(Bob) and wife Beth, daughter Teresa Cox Standard and sweetheart Bobby Frank, two

Granddaughters, Lindsey Johnson Roebuck and husband Butch and Christie Johnson Penney

(Chris) and husband Zack, three grandsons, Robert Warner Cox (Rob), Saxon Henry Standard

(Henry), Cooper Rowe Standard, five great grandchildren, Ganor Patterson Penney (Gaines),

Ruby Grace Penney, Walter Lynn Roebuck (Walt), Samuel Morris Robuck (Sam), and baby

Roebuck, due October 19, 2015. She is also survived by two sisters, Jean Breedlove Fly and

Christine Breedlove Goering.

The family especially thanks Maxine’s wonderful Doctor of many years, Dr. Ricky Irons and her

beloved caregivers for the past four years, Alyce Dillard, Kristin Johns, Willodean Davis, Dean

Kimbrough, Darlene Pauley, Glad Gregory and the late, Brenda Griggs.

Arrangements are being made by Greenview Funeral Home. The family will receive visitors

from 11:00‐1:00 on Thursday, July 30, 2015 in the Worship Center Lobby of Woodmont Baptist

Church with a private memorial service to follow.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Woodmont Baptist Church, 2001

Darby Drive, Florence, Alabama 35630.

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