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==Background==

==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&'

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=https://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>

|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>

Maple was married for fifty-one years to the former Claudia Lucille Martin (July 31, 1935 &ndash; 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]] 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/>

Maple was married for fifty-one years to the former Claudia Lucille Martin (July 31, 1935 &ndash; 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]] 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> 

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=https://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/>

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/>