Maxine grew up in the Overbrook and Lyndon communities, had lived in the Highland Park area of Topeka from 1945 to 1963, then north of Lyndon until moving into Lyndon in 1975.

Maxine had been a teacher in a one-room school north of Lyndon until she married, was a Homemaker and then began working at the Lyndon schools as a cook for several years. She was a member of the Lyndon United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women.

On July 16, 1945, Maxine was married to Glenn Warren in Independence, Missouri.

Maxine was preceded in death by her husband, Glenn on April 27, 2001; by two granddaughters, Denise Smith and Jeanie Spiker; and a sister, Nancy Decock.

Maxine is survived by her five children, Sheryl Gerhardt of Campbellsville, Kentucky, Janet Ward of Lyndon, Donald Warren of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Doug Warren of Silver Lake and Dennis Warren of Abilene; her two brothers, Charles Middleton of Dallas, Texas and Galen Middleton of Highlands Ranch, Colorado; her sister, Phyllis Wilson of S u n City, Arizona; thirteen grandchildren, nineteen great-grandchildren and nine great-great-grandchildren.