Maxine’s mother Nora liked the name Maxine after seeing a picture of a pretty actress Maxine Elliott.* Her mother always thought the name suited her well. Her middle name Jane was given after her paternal grandmother Mary Jane Patton.41

Her neice Florence Bucholz remembers Maxine as a very pretty lady. She always dressed very well and was one of the first women she knew to drive a car. Florence said Maxine always drove a nice car. She remembered that Maxine and her first husband, Jim Smith, rode motorcycles. Maxine married Smith at an early age possibly as young as 15 or 16. Smith was an independant cab driver in Washington D.C.41

Her step-neice Cheryl “Sherry” Boal wrote this: “I always liked your mom, Maxine, she seemed like Flo from [the T.V. show] Mel's diner, and really was a waitress. i always admired women who were strong and did not put up with crap.”186
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She was called “Mac” by most of her brothers and sisters.

- Employed in the late 1940s at The Hot Shoppe, a popular family restuarant in Washington, D.C. The restaurant was started by J. Willard Marriott and was later part of the Marriott Hotel Corporation in 1967. She knew the founder as well as his two young sons Bill Marriott Jr., and Richard while working there.

- Employed as a Hostess at the popular Bookbinders restaurant in Philadelphia, PA in the early 1950s. It was frequented by many celebrities including politicians, actors and major league baseball players who’s pictures were hung on the restaurant walls.

- Employed as a waitress at Mr. J’s Cafe in Hyattsville, Md. from about 1956 to the late 1960’s when her boss Mr. Lutz sold his business and moved to Soda Springs, Idaho where he purchased the Caribou Lodge.

- Employed as a waitress at The Calvert House Inn in Hyattsville, Md until her retirement.

Resident of Scranton, PA in the 1940s or 1950s.
Resident of Philadelphia, PA in Aug 1955.15

Resident of Riverdale, Prince Georges, MD, May 1958 - Nov 1962

Resident of Hyattsville, Prince Georges, MD from Dec 1962 until her retirement in about 1985.

Resident of Philipsburg, Centre, PA from her retirement until her death.

Maxine, like several others in the family suffered from Macular Degeneration* which usually affects older adults that results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field. It is a major cause of visual impairment in older adults. Macular degeneration can make it difficult or impossible to read or recognize faces, although enough peripheral vision remains to allow other activities of daily life.

Maxine was not able to have children.

All the above data per this source unless otherwise noted.187
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Maxine and her husband James Emmett Gleason legally adopted her nephew, Richard, son of her younger brother Richard Delmont Lines in October of 1956.4
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More about Maxine’s namesake Maxine Elliott

*Maxine Elliott (1868-1940) born Jessie Dermott was an American stage actress born in Rockland, Maine. She spent much of her childhood on a large sailing ship, of which her father, Thomas Dermot, of Oakland, Ca., was captain. Subsequently she spent about a year at the convent of Notre Dame, Roxbury, Mass.

Jessie went to New York when she was barely sixteen years old to begin the struggle of "carving out a career." She adopted her stage name Maxine Elliott in 1889 and made her first appearance on the stage in the season of 1890-1891 in New York. It is said that reviewers disagreed "over whether it was her beauty or her acting ability that attracted attention.”

Elliott quit her acting career during World War I, to outfit and staff a barge as a floating hospital, to nurse wounded soldiers in France. Boyfriends as a young actress included Baseball Hall of Famer John Montgomery Ward & heavyweight champ/actor Gentleman James J. Corbett. She was named as co-respondent in Ward's divorce from famed actress Helen Dauvray. For her beauty & unusual violet eyes, Maxine Elliott has been compared to [actress] Elizabeth Taylor. For many years, there was a Maxine Elliott Theatre on Broadway. She appeared in five films between 1913 and 1919.

Maxine became friendly with financier J.P. Morgan who probably gave her financial advice helping her to become a wealthy woman. During World War One Elliott returned to Europe and volunteered both her income and her time to the cause of Belgian relief, for which she received the Belgium Order of the Crown. She was dating tennis star Tony Wilding and they may have planned to marry, but he died in 1915 in France during World War One.

Elliott's last stage appearance was in 1920. She then retired from acting, announcing that she "wished to grow middle-aged gracefully."

Successful in business and investment, Elliott had homes in America and in Europe which included a townhouse in London where she spent most of her leisure time. She died in Cannes, France at the age of 72 and was the subject of a biography titled "My Aunt Maxine: The Story of Maxine Elliot" c.1964 written by her niece Diana Forbes-Robertson. Her younger sister Gertrude also a noted actress was married to actor Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson.188,189,190
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Several family members apparently suffered from Macular Degeneartion. They included Maxine’s brother Orville, her aunt Cornelia Ellen (Lines) Goff and a neice (Orville’s daughter) Florence (Lines) Bucholz.108