The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois

May 22, 1972 - Monday, pg 2 

CYNTHIA  KAY  MAXFIELD   - (with picture) 

Prophetstown: - Cynthia Kay Maxfield, 18, died Sunday at University Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa, after being ill for one week. 

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the First Lutheran Church with the Rev. Lawrence S. Anderson officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery to Prophetstown.  Friends may visit Tuesday evening at Gardner's Chapel from 7-9 p.m.  A memorial has been established in her memory. 

Cynthia Maxfield was born Aug. 17, 1953 at Morrison, the daughter of James and Marilyn Reynolds Maxfield. She had lived her entire life in Prophetstown. She was a freshmen student at Western Illinois University at Macomb and was a member of the First Lutheran Church. 

Survivors include her parents, three brothers, Greg, Keith and Jeff, all at home, and the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Nellie Reynolds, Prophetstown.