Max E. McGee

NORFOLK -- Services for Max E. McGee, 94, of St. Louis, Mo., will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Stonacek Funeral Chapel here with burial in Prospect Hill Cemetery. Visitation will start at 10 a.m., and military rites will be by American Legion Post 16, VFW Post 1644 and the U.S. Army Honors Guard. The Rev. Dr. James Brewer will officiate. He died Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012, at the Missouri Veterans Home. Memorials are directed to Mayo Clinic Foundation and Masonic Shrine Children's Hospital. Max was born on Nov. 7, 1917, at Lincoln, the son of Garton W. and Frances A. (McCoy) McGee. He graduated from Norfolk High School in 1936 and graduated from Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science in 1937. He married M. Maxine Pischel on May 4, 1941, at Norfolk. He served in the Army from July 11, 1941, to Jan. 14, 1946, as a quarter master tech sergeant. They were blessed with two children. Max served as a funeral director all of his life. He served as a funeral director at the Hoepfinger Funeral Home at Neligh from 1947 to 1958. Max was past president of the Neligh Chamber of Commerce, past president of Lions Club at Neligh, past master of Fidelity Lodge 51, AF & AM, of Neligh and served one term on the Neligh City Council. He served as a funeral director at Hillview Chapel, Pierce and Norfolk, from 1955 to 1960. He then served as a funeral director at the David City Memorial Chapel at David City from 1960 to 1984. He was past president of the David City Chamber of Commerce, past president of David City Rotary and a volunteer fireman at David City, a charter member and past president of the David City Housing Authority and a life member of the American Legion of David City, and past president (1973-1974) of Nebraska Funeral Directors Association. From 1984 to 2005 he served as funeral director at the Butler-Volland Funeral Homes in Hastings. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge-Midwest Lodge 217 and past president and member of the Kiwanis Club at Hastings. In 2005 Max moved to St. Louis to be near his daughter, Dee and family. Max is survived by his two children, son Mark E. McGee of Parlin, N.J., and daughter Dee and her husband, Steve Davis of St. Louis; two grandchildren, Jessica and husband Adam Hanna and Ryan Davis; nieces and nephews.\r\n\r\nPreceding him in death were his parents, his wife Maxine and two brothers, Gale McGee and Dean McGee.

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Max E. McGee

November 7, 1917 - August 18, 2012