A funeral service for Mrs. Maxine L. Taylor, age 83, of Carthage, TX, will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, at Jimerson-Lipsey Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Rodney Puryear officiating. The family will receive friends from 9-10 a.m. on Wednesday at the funeral home prior to the funeral. Mrs. Taylor passed away on Monday morning, Dec. 3, 2012, at her home in Carthage.

Hazel Maxine Lambert Taylor was born on Feb. 19, 1929, in Call, TX to Claude Burton and Annie Hendricks Lambert. She graduated from Orange High School with the class of 1947. Mrs. Taylor married Maurice Allen "June" Taylor on March 15, 1950, in Orange. She worked at the courthouse in Orange. Mrs. Taylor and her husband were Baptist Missionaries and served in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina in South America and also in Mexico. While in Orange, she was a member of the Cove Baptist Church. Mrs. Taylor moved to Carthage in 1992, and became a member of the Old Center Baptist Church and later the Southside Baptist Church in Carthage. She was preceded in death by her parents and three siblings, J.C. Lambert, Mildred Harris, and Gordon Lambert.

Mrs. Taylor is survived by her husband of 62 years, June Taylor of Carthage; two sons, Bruce A. Taylor and wife Geri of Mount Belvieu and Paul Taylor and wife Rhonda of Carthage; one brother, Wayne Lambert and wife Linda of Rosenburg; five grandchildren, Hunter Taylor, Alyse Allen, Christina Allen Fulsom, Hannah Taylor, and Sydnee Taylor; and three great-grandchildren, Landon Lane LaGrone, Kali Rayne Fulsom, and Avery Grace Prudhomme.

If desired, memorials may be made to the Old Center Cemetery Assn., c/o Shayne Thames, P.O. Box 167, Carthage, TX 75633.

A guestbook may be signed online at www.jimerson-lipsey.com.