By Rebecca Goodman
The Cincinnati Enquirer

DELHI TWP. - Lois B. Maxey, a social worker for Comprehensive Care Centers of Northern Kentucky, was named social worker of the year by the National Mental Health Association's Northern Kentucky chapter in 1978.

Mrs. Maxey died Tuesday at the hospice at Mercy Franciscan Western Hills after a bout with cancer. The Delhi Township resident was 75.

A devout Christian, Mrs. Maxey was born in DeKalb County, Ind., in 1929 and attended Cincinnati Bible College and Seminary from 1946 to 1949. She married Victor L. Maxey in Phoenix in 1949 and received a bachelor's degree from Southwestern College there in 1951.

They moved to Louisville, where Mrs. Maxey received a master's degree in social work at the University of Louisville in 1966.

They moved to Greater Cincinnati when her husband accepted the position of librarian at Cincinnati Bible College and Seminary. Mrs. Maxey became a clinical social worker for Comprehensive Care Centers in 1968. She was team leader at five offices and supervisor of Westside Center at Peter G. Noll Homes in Newport. She retired in the mid-1990s.

Survivors include her husband; three sons, Tom and Victor Maxey Jr., both of Delhi Twp., and David Maxey of Manassas, Va.; two sisters, Violette Patee of Butler, Ind., and Maxine Kimmel of Hicksville, Ohio; a brother, Lavon Brunson of Harlan, Ind.; and nine grandchildren.

Visitation is 5-8 p.m. Friday at the Dalbert, Woodruff & Isenogle Funeral Home, 2880 Boudinot Ave. The funeral is 10 a.m. Saturday at the Western Hills Church of Christ.

Memorials: Western Hills Church of Christ, 5064 Sidney Road, Cincinnati, OH 45238 or Hospice of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 710784, Cincinnati, OH 45271-0784.