Mary Virginia Maddux

Funeral services for Mary Virginia Lane Maddux, 98, will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 12, 2013 at First United Methodist Church in Cookeville, TN. Burial will follow at Crest Lawn Memorial Cemetery in Cookeville. Rev. Max Mayo and Rev. Drew Shelley will officiate. The family will receive friends from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Friday, January 11, 2013 at Hooper, Huddleston and Horner Funeral Home in Cookeville and from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. at the church on January 12, 2013. Mrs. Maddux died Wednesday evening January 9, 2013 at Cookeville Regional Medical Center. She was born June 16, 1914 in Wickliffe, Kentucky to the late Gertrude Nichols Lane and Joseph Ernest Lane. Mary Virginia graduated valedictorian from Cookeville High School and attended Tennessee Polytechnic Institute. She transferred to Eastern Kentucky State College in Richmond, Kentucky and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She received her Master of Arts from Tennessee Tech University. She taught in elementary and high schools in Covington, Kentucky and Elizabethton, Tennessee. After she married the late Jared Maddux, the family lived in Nashville, Tennessee where Jared served as Tennessee State Comptroller. Jared and Mary Virginia moved back to Cookeville, Tennessee in 1948 where he practiced law and also served four terms as Speaker of the Senate and Lieutenant Governor of the State of Tennessee. In addition to raising their three children, Mary Virginia was an active church and civic volunteer in Cookeville. At the First United Methodist Church in Cookeville, Mary Virginia was a Sunday school teacher, a member of numerous church committees, and was elected chair of her church circle. She was the president of the local United Methodist Women and the president of the District Methodist Women. Additionally, she served as the President of the Wesley Foundation Board of Directors and as a member of the Triad Board of Directors. She was President of the American Legion Auxiliary Post 46 and held the position of Director of Government at Volunteer Girls State in Murfreesboro for more that 25 years. She also conducted the mock legislative sessions at American Legion Boys State at Tennessee Tech for many years. Mary Virginia was a literacy advocate for several years and taught numerous adults to read as a tutor in the Adult Literacy Program for the Putnam County Literacy Council. Mary Virginia helped start the Program and also became the Literacy Council"�s first President. In addition, she also served on both the Upper Cumberland Board and the Putnam County Library Board. She was also president of the Upper Cumberland Guidance Counselor"�s Association and was a long time member of the Cookeville House and Garden Club. After her children all started to school, Mary Virginia returned to work as an adjunct Mathematics Professor at Tennessee Tech University. She later became the Assistant Director of Admissions for the University and traveled to high schools throughout the state to recruit students for Tennessee Tech. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband and by her brother, Joseph E. Lane Jr. Her family includes her daughter, Virginia Maddux Moore; her son, Judge John Jared Maddux, Jr. and wife Lynne; and her daughter, Rachel Maddux Rader and husband Dan. She is survived by her eight grandchildren, Lane Moore (Shannon), Lara Moore Mowery (Joel), Jared Maddux (Jennifer), Sara Maddux Robertson (Joseph), Daniel Rader IV, Mary Virginia (Ginna) Rader Felts (Tucker), Rachel Elizabeth (Beth) Rader Dunklau (Henry) and John Rader, and her eleven precious great grandchildren. Pallbearers will be her grandchildren, and nephews, Joe Lane and Tom Maddux. Honorary Pallbearers will be Margaret Hale, Virginia Gibson, Lessie Hayes, Linda Hawkins, Mary Byrd King and George King. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Mary Virginia Maddux Scholarship at Tennessee Tech University TTU PO Box 1915 Cookeville, TN 38501 or to the Cookeville First United Methodist Church 165 East Broad St Cookeville, TN 38501.