MARY LOUISE MAXWELL SWEET, Age 73, a resident of Bertrand, died Friday, May 13, 2011 at the Miner Nursing Center.

Born September 15, 1937 at Sikeston, MO, to the late Loren and Ora Morehead Maxwell, she had lived in Scott and Mississippi Counties her entire life. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Bertrand where she was a Sunday School Teacher having taught the Discipleship Class. She was employed with the Brown Shoe Company Factory in Charleston a number of years and then the Bertrand Nursing Center until her retirement.

Surviving are: two sons and daughters in law, Tony and Janice Sweet of Cape Girardeau, MO and Maxwell and Melissa Sweet of Charleston; one daughter, Marie Warren of Bertrand; one brother, Robert (Bob) Maxwell of Charleston; one sister, Doris Bone of Charleston; four grandchildren, Andrew Sweet, Melissa Valentino, Lauren Sweet and Phillip Warren; two great grandchildren, Kaylee Sweet and Brandon Bazan.

She was preceded in death by two sisters, Jeanne Burchfield and Lora Mae Meeks.

Visitation will be from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., Sunday, May 15, 2011 at the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston where funeral services will be conducted at 11:00 a.m., Monday, May 16, 2011. Rev. Robert Herring of Cape Girardeau and Rev. Tom Ayers, interim pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bertrand, will officiate.

Interment will follow in the Oak Grove Cemetery near Charleston under the direction of the McMikle Funeral Home.

Pallbearers will be: Robert (Bob) Maxwell, Tony Sweet, Maxwell Sweet, Andrew Sweet, Phillip Warren and David Peters.

The family requests memorials be made to:
First Baptist Church of Bertrand
P.O. Box 39
Bertrand, MO 63823

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