A graveside service for Joyce "Maxine" Caudell Herren, 92, will be held at noon, Saturday, March 26, at Georgia Memorial Park Cemetery in Marietta.
Mrs. Herren left us for her heavenly home Friday, March 18, 2022 at Wellstar Cobb Hospital. She passed after complications following a massive heart attack.
Born Jan. 30, 1930, on the family farm between Cornelia and Cleveland in rural Habersham County in the midst of what her father termed a blizzard, Maxine was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.D. Caudell and the youngest of seven children. Maxine was preceded in death by her parents, her six siblings, and her husband.
In a practice that was common in rural Georgia in the 1930s, she was baptized in Little Nails Creek in Banks County at the age of nine.
Maxine grew up in Cornelia and graduated from Cornelia High School in 1949. Maxine moved to Atlanta in 1950 and attended Atlanta Business College and later Georgia State University. She met her future husband, Ernest N. Herren of the Oakdale community in 1952, and they married on Feb. 7, 1953. They were married for 51 years. For over 15 years, Maxine worked in office positions with Lawyers Title, The Armour Company, and Square D. Maxine was a skilled typist, stenographer, switchboard operator, and real estate title clerk. Maxine left public employment in 1967 to be a stay-at-home mother to their only child, John. She was a devoted mother and wife, and she excelled in cooking, canning, sewing, knitting, crocheting and all areas of homemaking. Her passions were gardening, reading, genealogy, birdwatching and Bible study. She had an encyclopedic knowledge of the Bible and attended womens bible study groups in Smyrna for 30+ years. After her husband's retirement from Georgia Power Company, she returned to work for ten years with Cobb County Board of Elections. Maxine will be remembered for her humor, kindness, and generosity. Her devotion to her family was unmatched, and she spent many years caregiving for her parents, her mother-in-law, and her husband. As a mother, she was fiercely protective and instilled strong ethics, manners, a love of God, support of family, and self-respect into her son. Maxine was a proud member of Bethany United Methodist in Smyrna at the time of her death. She grew up in Level Grove Baptist Church in Cornelia.
She is survived by her son and several nieces and nephews.