Maxine Hitchcock

September 27, 1938 - November 20, 2018

Mrs. Maxine Purvis Hitchcock, age 80, went to her heavenly home on Tuesday November 20, 2018. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, November 24, 2018 at 2pm in New Life Ministries Church of God with Rev. John Milam officiating. Interment will follow in Baldwin Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at the church from 1pm until the service hour. Mrs. Hitchcock is preceded in death by her husband, Jesse Russell Hitchcock; a son, James “Jimmy” David Hitchcock; and parents, Aline Douglas Purvis and Micajah Purvis, Jr. Mrs. Hitchcock was a native of Coffee County and came to Milledgeville to work as a telephone operator in the early sixties and later went to work for Baldwin County Hospital (Navicent Health Baldwin). She was the oldest member of New Life Ministries Church of God and taught Sunday School. Mrs. Hitchcock is survived by daughters, Patricia Hitchcock of Cleveland, TN, Pamela Hitchcock of Milledgeville; son, Russell “Greg” Hitchcock of Milledgeville; sister-in-law, Coline Purvis of Nichol; grandson, Michael Paul Micajah McCoy of Milledgeville; and nieces and nephews.