C. MAYTHEL CURTIS

PUXICO -- C. Maythel Curtis, 93, of Puxico died Saturday, Jan. 6, 1996, at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff.

She was born May 2, 1903, in Broughton, Ill., daughter of the late James Timothy and Elizabeth Ann Faries Allen. She was a former resident of St. Louis and had lived in Puxico the past 34 years. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Puxico.

She married Lloyd T. Porter in 1919. He died in 1967. She then married R.L. Scobee for a brief period until his death. On Jan. 18, 1978, she married Dorsie Curtis. He died March 16, 1984.

Surviving are two sons: Floyd Porter of Pilot Knob and Gene Porter of Owensville; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a sister, Sylvia Wiley, and two brothers, Herbert and Audrey Allen.

Visitation will be after 6 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Puxico. Funeral services will be Monday at 1 p.m. in the First Baptist Church in Puxico, with the Rev. Marshall Link of Puxico officiating. Burial will be in the Puxico Cemetery.