Maxine M. Davis

WILLIAMSTOWN-Maxine Lemery Davis passed away Wednesday, February 23, 2022. She was born September 7, 1925, in Braintree, VT. She was the 8th child of 12 children born to Ben & Ada (Bell) Lemery and the last surviving of her siblings. The stories she told about growing up in rural Vermont during the Depression were amazing. From her mother (all of 4’10”) standing over a wood cook stove in July, making bread and pies every day to catching brookies with her best friend and cooking them in the woods next to the stream where they were caught. Her Father sidelined as a bootlegger, and she had the great adventure of going to NYC to work in a “bicycle shop”. It must have been something for a 16-year-old Vermont girl in the 30’s to experience Radio City Music Hall and Delmonico’s. She met Dad at a barn dance in East Granville. He was playing guitar in the band. They were married January 1, 1944. She grew huge vegetable and flower gardens, and Joe always built a pantry in the cellars of the many houses we lived in...