MAX A. JAMES

Funeral service for Max Adolph James, 615 S. Pacific, will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. Bill Dickey will officiate, with burial in Baker Cemetery at Marble Hill.

James, 84, died Tuesday, May 10, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

He was born March 12, 1910, at Brownwood, son of Adolph and Zetta Davis James. He and Mary Kate Chandler were married Aug. 16, 1936. She died in 1979. He and Esther Conrad Propst were married March 15, 1980.

James farmed in Stoddard County, moving to Marble Hill in 1949, and then to Cape Girardeau in 1953. He worked at Firestone Tire 10 years, Cape Vault Co. five years, and was foreman with the city of Cape Girardeau Street Department 20 years, retiring in 1975.

He served with the Cape Girardeau Auxiliary Police nine years, was a member of Odd Fellows Lodge, Kiwanis Golden K Club, and Rebekahs.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Chandler James of Memphis, Tenn., Douglas James of Jackson; a daughter, Martha Howell of Cape Girardeau; two stepsons, Stanley Propst of Fayetteville, N.C., Ronald Propst of Cape Girardeau; three stepdaughters, Rosetta Davis and Linda Dedert of Cape Girardeau, Joy Martin of Decatur, Ill.; a sister, Mabel Robbnett of St. Louis; 25 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.