Betty Bostick Maynard, 78, Clarksville, died Tuesday, February 17, 2009, at Spring Meadows Health Care Center. The funeral will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at McReynolds-Nave & Larson Chapel with Rev. David Rainey officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3-7 p.m. Saturday and from 12 noon until the hour of service Sunday at the funeral home.
McReynolds-Nave & Larson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. She was born July 19, 1930 in Dyersburg, TN and preceded in death by her parents, Ralph F. and Evelyn Stutts Bostick; husband, Melvin L. Maynard Jr.; brother-in-law, Jere Bradshaw. Mrs. Maynard was a retired professor of Physical Education at Austin Peay State University, a member of First Methodist Church of Dyersburg and Chi Omega and a graduate of the University of Tennessee. Survivors include her son, Melvin L. (Dorothea) Maynard III, Clarksville; GrandChildren, Louis Maynard and Alora Maynard; sister, Peggy B. Bradshaw, Dyersburg; niece, Dianne Bradshaw Fielder, Louisville, TN; nephew, Jere T. Bradshaw Jr., Nashville. Memorials may be made to the Melvin Maynard Jr. Center, 951 Clark Street, Clarksville, TN 37040.