Maxine Ruth (Dobbins) Champion was born on February 15, 1915 in Princeville, Illinois United States, and died at age 77 years old on September 30, 1992 at St Francis Medical Center in Peoria. Maxine Champion was buried on October 2, 1992 at Lakeside Cemetery 1917 N 8th St, in Pekin, Tazewell County.
The 1930's were a decade of severe stress: the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the rise of Nazism. But it was also the end of Prohibition, the beginning of the change of land management (poor farm ...