WAPELLO, Iowa -- Lois Louise Maddux, 82, Wapello, died Friday, May 23, 2003, at the Wapello Nursing and Rehab Center in Wapello.

Services at the First Presbyterian Church in Wapello. The Rev. Mary N. Pugh will officiate. Pallbearers are Rodney Staats, Bran Stephens, Mike Maddux, Richard Winfrey, Kevin Winfrey and David Maddux. Honorary pallbearers are James Maddux, Matthew Maddux, Andrew Maddux, Steve Maddux and Todd Staats. Music will be provided by organist Jane McNeil and vocalist Alana Poage. Burial will be at the Wapello Cemetery.

Visitation at the Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home. The family will be friends from 7-8 p.m. A memorial fund has been established for the benefit of the first Presbyterian Church stain Glass Window Restoration Fund.

Mrs. Maddux was born July 29, 1920 in Wapello, the daughter of Louis L. and Deliliah Alexander Schneider. She married William E. Maddux July 4, 1936 in Wapello.

She worked for a short time at the IAAP in Burlington, She was a cook at various restaurants and Casey's in Wapello including a few years when she and her husband owned and operated a restaurant in Wapello.

She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church. She loved to cook especially for her family.

She enjoyed visiting with family and friends.

Survivors include three daughters, Beverly Stephens of Wapello; Judith Hertz of Hardin, Mont. and Barbara E. Keltner of Wapello; two sons, Bill Maddux of Wapello and Dennis Maddux of Council Bluffs; a step-daughter Joanne Hartman of Washington; one sister Dorothy McNeil of Wapello; one brother, Merwin Schneider of Clear Lake, Calif.; one brother-in-law, Miles Waterhouse of Wapello; 16 grandchildren; six step grandchildren; 25 great grand children; 11 step great grandchildren; three great great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by per parents; two sisters, Katherine Sorenson and Maralee Waterhouse; a brother, Randall Schneider; a great grandson Barry Staats; and a step grandson, Scott Keltner