SHARON MAYNARD

CARTHAGE-Services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Grace Pointe Assembly of God Church in Carthage for Sharon Kay Maynard, 59, Carthage, who died at her home on Monday morning, Aug. 3, 2015, after a year long battle with cancer. Burial will be at Jasper Cemetery, southeast of Carthage.

Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, at the church.

Contributions are suggested to Assemblies of God Bible Alliance-Fire Bibles, in care of Daniel Funeral Home.

Condolences may be left at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include her husband of 39 years, Rick; two sons and their wives, Shane and Anna Maynard and Shawn and Shanna Maynard, all of Fort Wayne, Ind.; her father, Carl Adams, Fort Wayne, Ind.; three brothers and their wives, Gary and Dot Adams, Delphi, Ind., Carl Yog and Elizabeth Adams, New Parish, Ind. and Rob and Becky Adams, Fort Wayne, Ind.; five grandchildren, Jessica, Alexis, Claudia, Cody and Cierra and one great-granddaughter, Ayana.

She was preceded in death by her mother Nella and twin siblings that died at birth.

Mrs. Maynard was born Jan. 23, 1956, in Lafayette, Ind., to Carl Bradley and Nella Mae (Wilson) Adams. After graduating from Monticello, Indiana High School in 1974 she attended Central Bible College in Springfield, Mo.

Mrs. Maynard had worked as a real estate agent for Charles Burt Realty for over 10 years and had worked at Carthage High School as a secretary to the principal for 23 years. She was active for many years in the BSF (Bible Study Fellowship), had gone to Willow Crest in Miami, Okla. nearly every Friday night for over 10 years to minister to the children, had made at least 10 mission trips to Mexico with Way Of The Cross Ministries and was a worship leader at Grace Pointe Assembly of God for many years. She was also the first place winner of the Indiana Teen Talent singing contest in high school.

She married Rick Maynard on March 20, 1976, in Monticello, Ind. And together they raised their twin sons.