Maxine Elliott Mottice was the second child and oldest daughter of Bernard and Goldie Elliott. She was born in Grantsville, WV in 1928 and lived there with her family on the south side on the hill overlooking the Little Kanawha River.
She and her family spent many happy times visiting Elliott relatives up at Sycamore and Reip relatives up on the West Fork. When her mother died -- when Maxine was 10 years old -- these trips became a welcome respite to an increasingly difficult life.
She graduated from Glenville State College in 1950 and married Robert N. Mottice in 1951. She taught elementary school for a year in Grantsville after her marriage. She and Bob moved to Elyria, Ohio after his graduation, and they stayed in Ohio the rest of their lives.
She died in 2006 in Ohio at the age of 77 from complications arising from heart disease and lyphoma of the spleen.
