Nancy D. Maddox

Maddox – Viewing 6:00-8:00 PM Wednesday, May 18, 2016. Funeral services for Nancy Dean Maddox will be held at 10 AM Thursday, May 19, 2016 in the Chapel at Hardage-Giddens, 729 Edgewood Avenue South, Jacksonville, FL. Burial will be held at Jacksonville Memory Gardens, 111 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, FL. Pastor Jerry Rowell of Cedar Hills Baptist Church will be officiating.

Ms. Nancy Dean Maddox went home to be with the Lord on Friday, May 13, 2016 at 2:30 AM. She was descended from two Jacksonville Pioneer Families: Adams and McKinlay. Paternal grandparents: John Quincy and Elizabeth Dean Brown Adams Established Adams Dairy on N. McDuff Avenue, later relocated the dairy to Atlantic Blvd. They moved the dairy cows across the old Acosta Bridge and renamed to Alpine Dairy, owned by Will and Bessie Adams Nolan (sister of William Adams). Maternal grandparents: John Roberts McKinlay and Ruth Emma Hollingsworth McKinlay owned and operated McKinlay Mapel Grove Dairy located on S. McDuff Avenue at Downing Avenue. John R. McKinlay parents: John Duncan McKinlay and Sarah Jaudon McKinlay (whose father) Elias G. Jaudon Sr., and mother Sarah Jane Harris Jaudon settled at Sadlers Point, which is now Ortega. He and his wife were among the founders of the Bethel Baptist Church, predecessor to the First Baptist Church of downtown Jacksonville.

Ms. Nancy Dean Maddox was born in Jacksonville, FL on March 1, 1935 and graduated from Robert E. Lee High School. Nancy married Walter E. Maddox on November 22, 1951. She was a member of Lakeshore Women’s Club and had a passion for sewing, cooking, and travel.

Ms. Nancy Dean Maddox was predeceased by her loving husband Walter Eugene Maddox and her son Douglas Eugene Maddox; her father William Edward Adams; her mother Sarah Emaline McKinlay Adams; and her sisters Mabel Helen Danbrauskas and Claire Emaline Ogdon. She is survived by five sons: Bruce Edward Maddox, Dennis Wayne Maddox, Thomas McKinley Maddox, Dallas Charles Maddox, and Dean Walter Maddox, and sixteen grandchildren and six great grandchildren. She also leaves to cherish her memory four brothers: John McKinlay Adams (Catherine), Thomas Jaudon Adams, Charles (Buck) F. Adams, and George Edward Adams (Mildred), and four sisters: Anna Eleanor Ingram, Glory Gaye Higginbotham, Laura Isabelle Bryan, and Sarah Cynthia McKee.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Community Hospice of Northeast Florida. https://support.communityhospice.com/donate