Judith Anne Maxwell, age 81, passed away on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at her home in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. Judy was born on November 23, 1943, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Sam and Ollie Livengood. The family moved to Ossining, New York where Judy lived her high school years. She attended Juniata College, where she met her husband, LeRoy S. Maxwell, Jr. (Tucker), graduating in 1965 magna cum laude with a B.A. in Latin.
Judy’s teaching career began in New Jersey where she taught Latin while Tucker finished law school in Philadelphia. The couple moved to Waynesboro shortly thereafter. With Tucker practicing law alongside his father, Judy retired from teaching to raise her three sons, John, David, and Andrew. In 1981, Judy resumed her teaching career, assuming the reins of a Latin program at Greencastle Antrim High School that had waned to a total of 32 students. Fueled by Judy’s teaching excellence, her obvious love for every student, and her conviction that every student can learn, the Latin program eventually burgeoned to nearly 250 students per year with Judy teaching every academic period to accommodate the newfound demand. She maintained this pace until 2008, when she handed the baton for Greencastle’s Latin program to a former student. Although formally retired, she continued teaching Latin—this time to several of her grandchildren.
Judy’s life was unified by three complementary threads: her devotion to family, her extraordinary gift for teaching and her tenacious pursuit of excellence in everything she did. Judy made every endeavor in which she participated better and every relationship in which she invested richer, more substantive and more fun. She brought humor to every pursuit. Judy achieved excellence in every role: wife, mother, in-law, friend, teacher. Her gift for teaching and her instincts for godly motherhood blended. Students needing assistance often heard, “let mother help,” as did her sons. Her persistent unselfishness was the character trait through which all her other qualities were delivered.
Judy was preceded in death by her son, Andrew (Melissa, Hampstead, NC). She is survived by her husband Tucker; sister Nancy Sampson, of Pittsburgh; brother Sam Livengood, of Waynesboro; sons John (Cayce, Memphis, TN) and David (Krista, Whitehouse Station, NJ); and seven grandchildren, all Maxwells: Kellan (28), Eli (23) and Sam (20), of Memphis, TN; Katie (18) and Libby (16), of Whitehouse Station, NJ; and Aengus (16) and Finley (14), of Hampstead, NC.
Services will be held at 1:30 P.M., Saturday, May 17, 2025, in Grove-Bowersox Funeral Home, 50 S. Broad St., Waynesboro. Burial will follow in Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro.
The family will receive friends from 12:30 P.M. until 1:30 P.M., Saturday afternoon, in the funeral home.
