Clara Maxine "Susie" Fowler Foley Obituary (1932

Mrs. Clara Maxine "Susie" Fowler Foley, age 93, of Canaan, Indiana entered this life on August 31, 1932 in Needmore, Indiana, the loving daughter of the late William and Ada Frances Daniels Fowler. She and her family moved from Bedford to Madison, Indiana in 1942. She was a 1950 graduate of North Madison High School. She was united in marriage to Ralph W. "Bill" Foley on April 19, 1952 at the Madison Baptist Parsonage in downtown Madison. This happy union of 48 years was blessed with four daughters, Karen, Kathy, Katie, and Kim. She worked early in life at Meece, Inc. in Madison and for a short time at Conn Organ in Madison. She and Bill farmed and she was always outside working along side him or in her yard or garden. She was foremost a homemaker, cooking countless meals for hired hands while they were putting up hay or putting in tobacco. She canned and froze whatever she could for her family from her garden. She loved to play euchre, enjoyed fishing, quilting, and reading. Maxine loved to baby sit children and did for many family, friends, and neighbors. She attended the old Hicks Ridge Baptist Church and then later in life the Indian-Kentuck Baptist Church until her health declined. She loved all the family get together's and doted on her grandchildren, great-grandchildren and her great-great-grandson. In her later years you could find her sitting on her deck enjoying the sunshine and waving at people as they passed by. Maxine died on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, at 10:23 p.m. at her home in Canaan, Indiana. Please Click Here to View the Video Tribute. Please Click Here to View the Funeral Service Recording A LOVING FAMILY Maxine will be missed by her loving daughters, Karen Foley Rowlett and her husband Terry of Canaan, Indiana, Katie Foley Lockridge and her husband Jeff of Canaan, Indiana, Kimberly Foley Schultz of Madison, Indiana; her grandchildren, William T. Rowlett (Kimra), Sarah B. Stephen (Ben), Dusty Watson (Jessie), Donah Palmer (Ty), & Daniel; her great-grandchildren, Mary, Maggie, Arlow, Millie, Adriana, Jacob, Addison, Ryleigh, and Regan; her great great grandson, Joel; her sisters-in-law, Roberta Fowler of Marion, Indiana and Bonnie Fowler Miller of Madison, Indiana; several nieces, nephews and other relatives. She was preceded in death by her father, William Fowler, her mother, Ada Frances Daniels Fowler, her brothers, Robert, Chester, Eugene, & Maxwell Fowler, her daughter, Kathy Ann Foley Stringer died October 10, 2004, her grandchildren, Sarah Elizabeth, Carolyn Maxine, and Billy Dan, her great-granddaughter, Mollie Louise Stephen, her husband of 48 years, Ralph "Bill" William Foley, died September 5, 2000. FUNERAL CEREMONY Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, October 7, 2025, at 11:00 a.m., by Pastor Mike Barnes at the Morgan & Nay Funeral Centre, 325 Demaree Drive Madison, Indiana. Interment will follow in the Grandview Memorial Gardens, 9306 North US 421 near Madison, Indiana. VISITATION Friends may visit on Monday, October 6, 2025, from 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. and Tuesday, October 7, 2025 from 10:00 a.m.until the time of service at the Morgan & Nay Funeral Centre, 325 Demaree Drive in Madison, Indiana. MEMORIAL EXPRESSIONS Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. Cards are available at the Morgan & Nay Funeral Centres of Madison and Hanover. Online condolences, remembrances, and memorials can be left at www.morgan-nay.com To Place An Online Memorial Donation To send a flower arrangement in memory of Clara Maxine "Susie" Fowler Foley, please click here to visit our sympathy store.