Lila Maxwell:  

Well, having left North Carolina for 35 years there is a lot to tell about my life. I married Frederick (Mac) Maxwell and I have three daughters.....Rhonda, Michelle and Melanie. About Rhonda...she is married to Steven Cusato and lives in Maryland outside of the DC area. Rhonda and Steve have three children...Candy, Tina and Stevie...and one grandchild..Mikey. Oh Mikey looks just like me...lol...blond hair blue eyes. And Rhonda has another grandchild on the way. Michelle is married to Kenny Smith and they have two children....Summer Lynn and Tyler Wayne....they live in Homestead, FL, where we lived before moving back to North Carolina. Then there is our Melanie, the youngest of our lovely daughters.....she is 34, not married, no children, and a Counter Manager for Clinque at Belk in Laurinburg, NC. We are proud of all our daughters and what they have accomplished in their lives. Now....what were we doing all those years out of North Carolina...actually my husband retired from the US Army after 30 years. When I met him he was a SFC in the 82nd Airborne Division. He got out of the army and we moved to MD...after 10 long, long years living in MD he applied to go back into the Army and was accepted. That was in 1981....and we moved to Georgia, then to Germany, then to Oklahoma, then Hawaii, Kansas, New York, Florida, Panama, Florida/Oklahoma, PA, Florida......he retired with the rank of COL in 2005 and we decided to move back to NC in 2007. As for me....I am an artist...At this time April/May 2011 I have a show in Clinton NC at the Victor Small House on College Street. As long as I can remember I have loved drawing and that has not changed after all these years. My life has been far from boring and it is still exciting. We do volunteer work for the local VFW, History Museum,our church and other organizations. We do have animals that also keep us entertained....Apollo is a cross between a ...Expand for more