Beverly Ann Gray Maxey

Valley Center – Visitation services for Beverly Ann Gray Maxey, 74, Wichita, will be from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday at Baker Funeral Home in Valley Center.Mrs. Maxey died Monday, Aug. 13, 2007, in Wichita.She was born Sept. 28, 1932, in Pawnee, Okla., the daughter of Charles Everett and Lois Alta Palmer Gray. She was a longtime resident of Valley Center.Mrs. Maxey was a retired Firestone employee. She was an avid birding enthusiast.She married Bobby Maxey. They shared 57 years of marriage. He survives, of the home.Other survivors include three sons, Gary Maxey and wife Rita, Andale, David Maxey and wife Debbie, Tulsa, Okla., and Michael Maxey, Perry; a sister, Shirley Millsap and husband Jerry, Del City, Okla.; a brother, Charles Gray and wife Bernadette, Cleveland, Okla.; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.Mrs. Maxey was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Lois Gray, and a grandson, Robert Maxey.The family suggests memorials to the Chaplin Nature Center, 27814 27th Drive, Arkansas City, KS 67005.