Former Resident Named To Foundation Board

Former Trenton resident Steve Maxey has been appointed to the Community Foundation of Northwest Missouri Board of Directors.
Maxey, who now lives in of Kansas City, recently retired from the foundation as their director of marketing and fund development and upon his retirement, was appointed to the 21-member board of directors. He previously served as the director of the North Central Missouri College Foundation as well as the college’s director of marketing. He was also an assistant vice president, marketing director and director of senior accounts of Mercantile Bank of Trenton and was a senior sales director for the Lodge of Four Seasons in Lake Ozark.
Community positions include president of the Trenton Rotary Club, Jaycees and Trenton Area Chamber of Commerce Board and membership on the Grundy County Nursing Home Board, the first Grundy County Health Unit Board, the Grundy County Extension Council, Friends of the Arts, and the Wright Memorial Hospital Foundation. He currently serves as secretary of the board of directors for the Trenton High School Alumni Association/Foundation.
Maxey was named Missouri’s Outstanding Civic Leader, selected a Paul Harris Fellow by the Trenton Rotary Club and received the Above and Beyond Award from the Trenton chamber. He was named to the distinguished class of alumni at NCMC and recently inducted into the NCMC Athletic Hall of Fame. He spent over 30 years as founder, director and producer of the Miss Trenton Area Scholarship Pageant as well as establishing the NCMC Holiday Hoops, serving as director for 15 years. He has also been involved with both the Missouri Day Festival and Missouri Day Marching Band Festival. He was named to the Missouri Community Services Commission by Gov. Mel Carnahan and recently received an Honorary State FFA Degree. He has been active in the Methodist Church on both the local and district level.
Maxey and his wife, Shirley are the parents of two sons and five grandchildren.