Maxine Earle Martin, 96, of Sweet Home, died Oct. 24, 2021.
She was born Oct. 27, 1924 in Kincaid, Ill. to Herbert “Herb” Hughes and Eugenia “Gene” Bankston.
She was the middle child of three, with older sister Reva Jo Jeffreys and younger brother George Hughes. Another sibling, Norma Gene Hughes, died at an early age.
During a tumultuous time of union unrest in Illinois, her father brought the family to the small logging town…