Funeral services for Claude Harrison Maxwell will be on Tuesday, June 23, 2020, at Wilson Funeral Home in Monticello, MS at 12:00 PM with burial to follow in the New Zion Baptist Church Cemetery in Monticello, MS. Bro. Jimmy Harvey will be officiating the services with Wilson Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. Visitation will be at Wilson Funeral Home on Tuesday, June 23, 2020, from 11:00 AM until 12:00 PM.

Mr. Maxwell,78, of Monticello, MS, passed from this life on Friday, June 19, 2020, from a short illness with thyroid cancer at his residence. He was born on January 23, 1942 in Lawrence County, MS, to William "Rugie" Maxwell and Velma Louise Morgan Maxwell.

Claude retired as a diesel mechanic after 60 years, but still helped all his friends out by working from home on their tractors & etc., until he became full time caretaker for his wife.

He was loved by all and will greatly missed.  His family's favorite saying was to put the tractor on the phone, one listen to it and he could tell you the problem.

Preceding him in death were his parents; daughters Donna Lynn Maxwell Wallace; sister Tera Elizabeth Fuller and an infant grandson, Clyde Harrison Reynolds.

Survivors are his wife of 58 years, Betty Ann Hall Maxwell; daughter Terri Maxwell Shumaker (Ben), two grandsons Jake Reynolds (Toni),Seth Reynolds (Sarah); great granddaughters Kaitlee, Kylee, Hailey and Ruth Anne Reynolds; great grandsons Carter Reynolds and Caleb Avants; one sister Judy Gayle Maxwell and one brother David Wayne Maxwell.