Maudie E. Key

Published 12:00 am Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Maudie Ellen Key, 85, of Bowling Green, died Jan. 25, 2010, at The Medical Center.

The Lebanon Junction native was born Jan. 5, 1925. She was the former director of housekeeping and laundry at the Holiday Inn Holidome in Bowling Green and was a volunteer with H.O.T.E.L. Inc. for many years. Her greatest love was her Savior and her Bible, especially the Book of Job. She also loved to watch her roses and her family grow. She was a daughter of the late Luther D. Eidson and Ada Pearl Kappel Rigsby. She married John W. Key on Sept. 10, 1941, in Bowling Green. He preceded her in death on Jan. 18, 2000. She was also preceded in death by her stepmother, Hatty Eidson; two sons, James Key and his wife, Estella, and Raymond Key; two daughters, Betty Hays and Ruby Key; three brothers, Billy Eidson, Edward Rigsby and Harold Pettit; and three sisters, Zelma Tinsley, Rosetta Harlow and Teresa Hood.

Funeral is at 1 p.m. Thursday at Stoner Family Funeral Home, Scottsville Road chapel, with burial in Fairview Cemetery. Visitation is from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. today and begins at 9 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to the Benevolence Fund at Barber Way Church, c/o Judy Meadows, 266 Blue Level Providence Road, Rockfield, KY 42274 or Cornerstone Church of God Building Fund, 102 Bishop Lane, Dickson, TN 37055.

Survivors include three sons, Mark Key and his wife, Janet, of Smiths Grove, John T. Key and his wife, Phyllis, of Bowling Green, and Larry Key, of Montgomery, Ala.; three daughters, Clara Bell and her husband, Charles, and Dorothy Wilson and her husband, Elmer, all of Bowling Green, and Sharon Hays and her husband, Jim, of Dickson, Tenn.; a son-in-law, David Hays, of Bowling Green; a daughter-in-law, Diana Key, of Brownsville; 30 grandchildren; 66 great-grandchildren; 28 great-great-grandchildren; two brothers, Walt Rigsby and his wife, Phyllis, of Indianapolis, and Daniel Eidson, of Bowling Green; three sisters, Betty Jean Rigsby, of Indianapolis, Pearline Good and her husband, John, of Spencer, Ind., and Betty Echlund and her husband, Herb, of Texas; a child whom she sponsored for many years from the Dominican Republic; and several nieces, nephews, friends and neighbors.