Mrs. Charlotte Watkins Maxey was born in Windsor
and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Watkins. Her father Homer
Watkins was an accomplished musician. Charlotte attended High
School at Sandwich Collegiate. Maxey studied with
Mother St.
Edwin of the Ursuline School of Music. The Ursulines were a Roman
Catholic religious order of women whose members are devoted to
teaching. A frame house on Ouellette Avenue, near the southeast
corner of Elliott, was their convent and music academy. The site
is now occupied by the main branch of the Windsor Public Library.
This very talented singer won many awards
during her singing career including success at the Windsor Music Festival
and the Chatham Music Festival. She won the Opera Contralto competition
at the Canadian National Exhibition. Mrs. Watkins Maxey made several
appearances on CBC Television including her appearance June 1st 1961
on the half-hour program ‘Music in Miniature’. Mrs. Watkins
Maxey went on to work as a stenographer at Hotel Dieu hospital. She
was married to letter carrier, and tenor, Arthur Maxey and they had
three daughters.
