Georgiana Lavinia "Dorothy" Maxcy

Published in the Adams County Times

Georgiana Lavinia Macy better known as "Dorothy G Maxcy" was born July 28 1890 at Point Bluff, Springville Township, Adams County, Wisconsin, went home to the Lord 16 Mar 1982. Her parents, 2 sisters and 2 brothers came here from Minneapolis in 1888, the first and only black family as of 1920, in Adams County all of whom preceded her in death.

Dorothy graduated from Point Bluff (1 room) School and with parental consent went to Minneapolis hoping to work for room and board and attend high school. The going was rough so she went to St Louis, Missouri to stay with her oldest sister, but the segregated high school was so very inadequate that she ended up in Chicago.

Having completed high school and a secretarial course, Dorothy was fortunate in securing situations enabling her to work her way from the Atlantic to the pacific, from Canada to Mexico,as nursemaid, ladies maid, or ladies companion.

In 1941 she was called to Washington, D C after having passed a Civil Service Examination in Chicago. She then worked at the Pentagon as a stenographer in the Transportation Corps and 3 years for the Quartermaster Corps, retiring in 1955 and settling on the home farm in Adams County in 1956.

Dorothy has blessed the Adams-Friendship, Wisconsin Dells community with her sincere friendship, sharp wit and her zest for life.

She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Wisconsin Dells.

Visitation was at Roseberry's Funeral Home, Friendship, March 19.

Visitation was at Trinity Lutheran Church, Wisconsin Dells, March 20 with funeral services following.

Interment was at the White Creek Cemetery, Adams County.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life, he who believes in Me shall live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?" John 11:25. Dorothy did.