Olivia Maxwell

Olivia Diane Maxwell, 77, of Cape Girardeau passed away Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, at the Lutheran Home.

She was born Dec. 29, 1944, in Benton, Missouri, the daughter of Roy Albert and Margie Helen Cannon Williams.

Olivia was a 1962 graduate of Scott County Central High School. She then went on to graduate from the Baptist Hospital School of Nursing in Oklahoma City. Olivia had a distinguished nursing career in Oklahoma City and Beaumont, Texas, before relocating to Cape Girardeau, where she worked in the operating room at Saint Francis Medical Center and later for Eye Consultants Inc. in Cape Girardeau.

Diane was devoted to the care and well-being of those she loved in her life, and her presence will be dearly missed by many cousins, friends and extended family members who will remember her for her compassion and concern for others, especially her patients.

Survivors include her mother of Cape Girardeau; daughter, Jennifer Maxwell, and grandson, Matthew Daniel Laudie, both of Gray, Tennessee; brother, Jeff (Nancy) Williams of Dallas; sister-in-law, Sharon Williams of Murray, Kentucky; and nieces, Diane and Mary Williams, Kimberley Evans, Carol Crady.

She was preceded in death by her father and a brother, Gary Williams.

Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 14, at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home.

Funeral service will follow at the funeral home, with the Rev. Donny Ford officiating. Burial will take place at a later date at Forest Hills Memorial Gardens in Morley, Missouri.

In lieu of flowers, memorial may be given to Hope Children's Home in Jackson or Southeast Missouri Pets.