Maxine Ruth Lehrman, age 90 of Stanwood, passed away on Monday September 15, 2014 at the Mechanicsville Nursing & Rehab Center. Funeral services will be held on Friday September 19, 2014 at 10:30 A.M at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Stanwood with Pastor Duncan Sprague officiating. Burial will follow at the Stanwood Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Thursday September 18, 2014 from 4-7 P.M at Chapman Funeral Home in Clarence. Maxine was born on January 7, 1924 to Harry and Merta (Mae) Erbs Andresen in Toronto, Iowa. She married Merle Lehrman on October 18, 1942 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Stanwood. Maxine graduated in 1941 from Mechanicsville High School and attended AIC in Davenport. She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Stanwood and the American Legion Auxiliary. Maxine worked as a secretary at various companies and assisted Merle at the gas station and on the farm. She was also an interviewer for the U.S. Census Bureau of Department of Labor and volunteered over 3,000 hours at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids. She is survived by her husband, Merle; daughter, Carole Anderson of Cedar Rapids; sons, Robert of Bettendorf and David (Eva Fried) of Tucson, AZ; grandchildren, Tracy (Carl) Barton of Cedar Rapids, Kelly (Joanna) Anderson of Parker, CO, Rhonda McDonald of Phoenix, AZ, Stephanie (Sam) Roll of Tucson, AZ, Derek Lehrman of San Francisco, CA., and Alix Lehrman of Tucson, AZ; great grandchildren, Joshua, Grant and Nicholas Barton of Cedar Rapids and Lucas and Jack Roll of Tuscan, AZ.; brother-in-law, Frederick (Marge) Lehrman; sister-in-law, Eloise (Lehrman) Wood; and many nieces and nephews. Maxine was preceded in death by her parents; infant brother, Harvey; sisters, Dorothy Busch and Irene Sander; brother-in-laws, Louis and Erwin Lehrman; and granddaughter Lisa Lynn Anderson. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Camp Courageous of Iowa, St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Stanwood, the American Heart Association, or the American Cancer Society.