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{{Infobox person
| name = Charles Edward Maple
| image = Journanlist_Charles_E._Maple.jpg
| image_size = 175px
| caption =
| birth_date = June 9, 1932
| birth_place = [[Oklahoma City]], [[Oklahoma]], USA
| death_date = November 22, 2006
| death_place = Pearsall, Frio County, [[Texas]]
| occupation =[[Journalist]]<br>
[[Chamber of commerce]] official<br>
State parks system administrator
|residence=(1) [[Claude, Texas]]<br>
(2) [[Amarillo]], Texas<br>
(3) Murfreesboro, [[Arkansas]]<br>
(4) [[Minden, Louisiana]]<br>
(5) Jacksonville, Texas
|religion=[[Methodist]]
|alma_mater=Claude High School<br>
[[Texas Tech University]]
|spouse=Claudia Lucille Martin Maple (married 1955-2006, his death)
|children= Carol Maple Chatfield<br>
David Maple<br>
Mark E. Maple<br>
Ted M. Maple
|footnotes=
}}
'''Charles Edward Maple''', known as '''Charlie Maple''' (June 9, 1932 – November 22, 2006),<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=ms_f-2_s&gsfn=Charles+Edward&gsln=Maple&msydy=1932&msypn__ftp=Minden%2C+Webster%2C+Louisiana%2C+USA&msypn=34638&msypn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3246%7C21%7C0%7C3115%7C34638%7C0%7C&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&uidh=000&cp=0|title=Charles Edward Maple|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=January 30, 2015}}</ref> was a [[journalist]], [[chamber of commerce]] official, and state parks executive during the second half of the 20th century in the four-state region of [[Oklahoma]], [[Arkansas]], [[Louisiana]], and [[Texas]].
==Background==
Maple was born in [[Oklahoma City]] to Clifford E. and Drusilla Maple. His family moved to the Texas Panhandle in 1948, and he graduated two years later from Claude High School in Claude in Armstrong County.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.landsoftexas.com/city/detail/?id=5082|title=City Data for Claude, Texas|publisher=landsoftexas.com|accessdate=February 28, 2015}}</ref> He attended [[Texas Tech University]] in Lubbock from 1950 to 1954 and graduated with a [[bachelor’s degree]] in journalism and a commission in the [[United States Army]] Quartermaster Corps. His Army service extended from 1954 to 1956 at Fort Lee, [[Virginia]], [[Fort Bragg]], [[North Carolina]], and Fort Jackson, [[South Carolina]]. He was promoted to [[first lieutenant]] while on active duty as the battalion operations and training officer at Fort Bragg. From 1956 to 1981, when he resigned his commission, Maple was also a captain in the reserves.<ref name=tst>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Maple&GSfn=Charles&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=46&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=16788231&df=all&'
|title=Charles E. Maple|publisher=''The Shreveport Times'' and ''Amarillo Globe-News'' through findagrave.com|date=November 26, 2006|accessdate=February 28, 2015}}</ref><ref name=obit>Charles E. "Charlie" Maple obituary, ''Minden Press-Herald'', November 29, 2006</ref>
==Journalism==
After military duties, Maple returned to West Texas to serve as the fire and police reporter for the ''Amarillo Globe-Times'' in [[Amarillo]].<ref name=tst/> He was associate editor and a stockholder for the ''Brownfield News'' in Brownfield in Terry County, Texas, and was the co-owner with his wife in the late 1950s of the weekly ''Pike County News'' in Murfreesboro in Pike County in southwestern Arkansas. He left Murfreesboro in November 1960 to become the news editor and a stockholder of what became the ''Minden Press-Herald'' in [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], Louisiana, under publisher Tom Colten.<ref>"Charles E. Maple of Claude, Texas, Named News Editor of Press-Herald", ''Minden Press'', November 14, 1960, p. 1.</ref>''The Press-Herald'' was launched in July 1966 as a daily from the previous weeklies, the ''Minden Press'' on Mondays and the ''Minden Herald'' on Thursdays. During Maple's tenure, the separate ''Press'' and ''Herald'' weeklies won statewide awards in 1965.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald'', July 18, 1966, p. 1.</ref> Maple had been political editor of both Minden weeklies. His last job in journalism was as the associate editor and the state editor, the individual in charge of regional reporting, of the now Gannett publication, ''The Shreveport Times,'' but his obituary does not give his date of service in Shreveport.''<ref name=obit/>
==Chamber of commerce==
From October 1, 1966, to August 9, 1971, Maple, a former [[Junior Chamber International|Jaycee]], was the executive director of the chamber of commerce in Minden. In that capacity he worked on the city capital improvement program, adopted by voters in a special election held in the spring of 1967. The program entailed a one-cent municipal sales tax increase.<ref>"Sales tax Squeezes Out Narrow Victory", ''Minden Press-Herald'', May 24, 1967, p. 1.</ref> The Minden chamber under Maple was voted the first "accredited" body in Louisiana.<ref>"Maple to Leave Local Chamber", ''Minden Press-Herald'', August 9, 1971, p. 1.</ref> He thereafter accepted the same position in Sapulpa near [[Tulsa]], Oklahoma.<ref name=tst/><ref>The Sapulpa Chamber of Commerce does not have the date that Maples left that organization.</ref>
Maples assumed the chamber position in Minden after nearly six years with ''The Press'' and ''The Herald''. The position opened when Tom Colten, who had sold the newspaper in 1965 and became the chamber director, resigned in 1966 to run, successfully, for [[mayor]] of Minden, the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] in that position since [[Reconstruction]].<ref name=phaug>''Minden Press-Herald'', August 1, 1966, p. 1</ref> From August 1977 to September 1980, Maple was president of the chamber in [[Jacksonville, Texas|Jacksonville]] in [[East Texas]].<ref name=obit/><ref name=tst/>
In civic affairs, Maple volunteered for twenty-five years with the [[Boy Scouts of America]].<ref name=palaciosb>{{cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TXMATAGO/2006-12/1167429642|title=Charles Edward Maple|publisher=''The Palacios Beacon''|location=Matagorda County, [[Texas]]|date=November 29, 2006|accessdate=February 15, 2015}}</ref> He was a member of the [[United Methodist]] Church. He also served on the Minden Beautification Council.<ref name=phaug/>
==Texas State Railroad==
In 1981, Maple joined the Texas Parks and Wildlife Departments the assistant superintendent of the Texas State Railroad, a heritage railroad between Rusk in Cherokee County and Palestine in Anderson County. After twelve years, health issues compelled his retirement from the parks system.<ref name=obit/><ref name=tst/> A year after Maple's death, the Texas State Railroad, which consistently failed to turn a profit, was leased for operation by American Heritage Railway.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.winwaed.com/rail/texas/state_railroad.shtml|title=The Texas State Railroad|publisher=winwaed.com|accessdate=May 25, 2010}}</ref>
==Later years and family==
Maple was married for fifty-one years to the former Claudia Lucille Martin (July 31, 1935 – July 15, 2009), the daughter of Claude Mayall Martin and the former Lois Donaldson. A native Texan, she graduated in 1952 from Lyndon B. Johnson High School in Johnson City, Texas. She met her husband at Texas Tech, where she also procured a degree in journalism and thereafter taught [[English (language)|English]] and journalism at Mena High School in Mena, Arkansas, prior to becoming a kindergarten teacher at both private [Christianity|Christian]] and public schools for two decades.<ref name=claudiamapleinmph/>
At the time of their deaths, he from a long illness, and she from a short fight with liver cancer, the Maples were residing in Pearsall in Frio County, Texas, south of [[San Antonio]]. Charles Maple had a stepmother, the late Esther Giles Maple, and a surviving stepsister, Gail B. Deaton (born 1942) of Portales, [[New Mexico]]. He and Claudia had one daughter, Carol Maple Chatfield and husband, David, then of [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]; three sons, David Maple and wife, Darla, of Marble Falls, Texas, Mark E. Maple (born 1962) and wife, Lisa, of Bullard, Texas, and Ted Martin Maple (born 1965) and wife, Corina, of Pearsall, and ten grandchildren.<ref name=claudiamapleinmph>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39616037|title=Claudia Martin Maple|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald''|date=July 18, 2009|accessdate=February 15, 2015}}</ref>
Charles and Claudia Maple are interred at Ebenezer Cemetery near Kosse in Limestone County in east Texas. Mrs. Maple had adopted the cemetery, recorded its history, and worked with a group to procure a state historical marker at the gate. Also known as Headsville Cemetery, Ebenezer dates to 1865.<ref name=claudiamapleinmph/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maple, Charles}}
[[Category:Louisiana people]]
[[Category:Oklahoma]]
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Arkansas]]
[[Category:Journalists]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Railroads]]
[[Category:Methodists]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
| name = Charles Edward Maple
| image = Journanlist_Charles_E._Maple.jpg
| image_size = 175px
| caption =
| birth_date = June 9, 1932
| birth_place = [[Oklahoma City]], [[Oklahoma]], USA
| death_date = November 22, 2006
| death_place = Pearsall, Frio County, [[Texas]]
| occupation =[[Journalist]]<br>
[[Chamber of commerce]] official<br>
State parks system administrator
|residence=(1) [[Claude, Texas]]<br>
(2) [[Amarillo]], Texas<br>
(3) Murfreesboro, [[Arkansas]]<br>
(4) [[Minden, Louisiana]]<br>
(5) Jacksonville, Texas
|religion=[[Methodist]]
|alma_mater=Claude High School<br>
[[Texas Tech University]]
|spouse=Claudia Lucille Martin Maple (married 1955-2006, his death)
|children= Carol Maple Chatfield<br>
David Maple<br>
Mark E. Maple<br>
Ted M. Maple
|footnotes=
}}
'''Charles Edward Maple''', known as '''Charlie Maple''' (June 9, 1932 – November 22, 2006),<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=ms_f-2_s&gsfn=Charles+Edward&gsln=Maple&msydy=1932&msypn__ftp=Minden%2C+Webster%2C+Louisiana%2C+USA&msypn=34638&msypn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3246%7C21%7C0%7C3115%7C34638%7C0%7C&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&uidh=000&cp=0|title=Charles Edward Maple|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=January 30, 2015}}</ref> was a [[journalist]], [[chamber of commerce]] official, and state parks executive during the second half of the 20th century in the four-state region of [[Oklahoma]], [[Arkansas]], [[Louisiana]], and [[Texas]].
==Background==
Maple was born in [[Oklahoma City]] to Clifford E. and Drusilla Maple. His family moved to the Texas Panhandle in 1948, and he graduated two years later from Claude High School in Claude in Armstrong County.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.landsoftexas.com/city/detail/?id=5082|title=City Data for Claude, Texas|publisher=landsoftexas.com|accessdate=February 28, 2015}}</ref> He attended [[Texas Tech University]] in Lubbock from 1950 to 1954 and graduated with a [[bachelor’s degree]] in journalism and a commission in the [[United States Army]] Quartermaster Corps. His Army service extended from 1954 to 1956 at Fort Lee, [[Virginia]], [[Fort Bragg]], [[North Carolina]], and Fort Jackson, [[South Carolina]]. He was promoted to [[first lieutenant]] while on active duty as the battalion operations and training officer at Fort Bragg. From 1956 to 1981, when he resigned his commission, Maple was also a captain in the reserves.<ref name=tst>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Maple&GSfn=Charles&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=46&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=16788231&df=all&'
|title=Charles E. Maple|publisher=''The Shreveport Times'' and ''Amarillo Globe-News'' through findagrave.com|date=November 26, 2006|accessdate=February 28, 2015}}</ref><ref name=obit>Charles E. "Charlie" Maple obituary, ''Minden Press-Herald'', November 29, 2006</ref>
==Journalism==
After military duties, Maple returned to West Texas to serve as the fire and police reporter for the ''Amarillo Globe-Times'' in [[Amarillo]].<ref name=tst/> He was associate editor and a stockholder for the ''Brownfield News'' in Brownfield in Terry County, Texas, and was the co-owner with his wife in the late 1950s of the weekly ''Pike County News'' in Murfreesboro in Pike County in southwestern Arkansas. He left Murfreesboro in November 1960 to become the news editor and a stockholder of what became the ''Minden Press-Herald'' in [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], Louisiana, under publisher Tom Colten.<ref>"Charles E. Maple of Claude, Texas, Named News Editor of Press-Herald", ''Minden Press'', November 14, 1960, p. 1.</ref>''The Press-Herald'' was launched in July 1966 as a daily from the previous weeklies, the ''Minden Press'' on Mondays and the ''Minden Herald'' on Thursdays. During Maple's tenure, the separate ''Press'' and ''Herald'' weeklies won statewide awards in 1965.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald'', July 18, 1966, p. 1.</ref> Maple had been political editor of both Minden weeklies. His last job in journalism was as the associate editor and the state editor, the individual in charge of regional reporting, of the now Gannett publication, ''The Shreveport Times,'' but his obituary does not give his date of service in Shreveport.''<ref name=obit/>
==Chamber of commerce==
From October 1, 1966, to August 9, 1971, Maple, a former [[Junior Chamber International|Jaycee]], was the executive director of the chamber of commerce in Minden. In that capacity he worked on the city capital improvement program, adopted by voters in a special election held in the spring of 1967. The program entailed a one-cent municipal sales tax increase.<ref>"Sales tax Squeezes Out Narrow Victory", ''Minden Press-Herald'', May 24, 1967, p. 1.</ref> The Minden chamber under Maple was voted the first "accredited" body in Louisiana.<ref>"Maple to Leave Local Chamber", ''Minden Press-Herald'', August 9, 1971, p. 1.</ref> He thereafter accepted the same position in Sapulpa near [[Tulsa]], Oklahoma.<ref name=tst/><ref>The Sapulpa Chamber of Commerce does not have the date that Maples left that organization.</ref>
Maples assumed the chamber position in Minden after nearly six years with ''The Press'' and ''The Herald''. The position opened when Tom Colten, who had sold the newspaper in 1965 and became the chamber director, resigned in 1966 to run, successfully, for [[mayor]] of Minden, the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] in that position since [[Reconstruction]].<ref name=phaug>''Minden Press-Herald'', August 1, 1966, p. 1</ref> From August 1977 to September 1980, Maple was president of the chamber in [[Jacksonville, Texas|Jacksonville]] in [[East Texas]].<ref name=obit/><ref name=tst/>
In civic affairs, Maple volunteered for twenty-five years with the [[Boy Scouts of America]].<ref name=palaciosb>{{cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TXMATAGO/2006-12/1167429642|title=Charles Edward Maple|publisher=''The Palacios Beacon''|location=Matagorda County, [[Texas]]|date=November 29, 2006|accessdate=February 15, 2015}}</ref> He was a member of the [[United Methodist]] Church. He also served on the Minden Beautification Council.<ref name=phaug/>
==Texas State Railroad==
In 1981, Maple joined the Texas Parks and Wildlife Departments the assistant superintendent of the Texas State Railroad, a heritage railroad between Rusk in Cherokee County and Palestine in Anderson County. After twelve years, health issues compelled his retirement from the parks system.<ref name=obit/><ref name=tst/> A year after Maple's death, the Texas State Railroad, which consistently failed to turn a profit, was leased for operation by American Heritage Railway.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.winwaed.com/rail/texas/state_railroad.shtml|title=The Texas State Railroad|publisher=winwaed.com|accessdate=May 25, 2010}}</ref>
==Later years and family==
Maple was married for fifty-one years to the former Claudia Lucille Martin (July 31, 1935 – July 15, 2009), the daughter of Claude Mayall Martin and the former Lois Donaldson. A native Texan, she graduated in 1952 from Lyndon B. Johnson High School in Johnson City, Texas. She met her husband at Texas Tech, where she also procured a degree in journalism and thereafter taught [[English (language)|English]] and journalism at Mena High School in Mena, Arkansas, prior to becoming a kindergarten teacher at both private [Christianity|Christian]] and public schools for two decades.<ref name=claudiamapleinmph/>
At the time of their deaths, he from a long illness, and she from a short fight with liver cancer, the Maples were residing in Pearsall in Frio County, Texas, south of [[San Antonio]]. Charles Maple had a stepmother, the late Esther Giles Maple, and a surviving stepsister, Gail B. Deaton (born 1942) of Portales, [[New Mexico]]. He and Claudia had one daughter, Carol Maple Chatfield and husband, David, then of [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]; three sons, David Maple and wife, Darla, of Marble Falls, Texas, Mark E. Maple (born 1962) and wife, Lisa, of Bullard, Texas, and Ted Martin Maple (born 1965) and wife, Corina, of Pearsall, and ten grandchildren.<ref name=claudiamapleinmph>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39616037|title=Claudia Martin Maple|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald''|date=July 18, 2009|accessdate=February 15, 2015}}</ref>
Charles and Claudia Maple are interred at Ebenezer Cemetery near Kosse in Limestone County in east Texas. Mrs. Maple had adopted the cemetery, recorded its history, and worked with a group to procure a state historical marker at the gate. Also known as Headsville Cemetery, Ebenezer dates to 1865.<ref name=claudiamapleinmph/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maple, Charles}}
[[Category:Louisiana people]]
[[Category:Oklahoma]]
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Arkansas]]
[[Category:Journalists]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Railroads]]
[[Category:Methodists]]
[[Category:United States Army]]