Born in Jefferson County, but grew up in Blount County, Alabama. Maude attended four colleges Howard College (now Samford), Peabody and the University, but failed to get her degree because of a mix-up over her foreign language credits, and graduated from Jacksonville State. She taught 22 years in Blount County first in Blountsville. Then at Cleveland and Summit and then (moving to Marshall County in 1944) she taught 7th grade for 4 years at MCHS in Guntersville, at Guntersville City school for 7 years, then at Summit for 2 years. She taught a year at the Guntersville Armory while they were building Carlisle Park, and taught her last 10 years 6th Grade at Carlisle Park. She retired in 1969 at Carlisle Park School in Guntersville after 46 years of teaching. She taught her students the importance of conserving natural resources, and she was one of the first around here to hold "outdoor classrooms". She was chosen as the State of Alabama Conservation Teacher of the Year in 1965.
She served for many years as the state president of the ladies' auxiliary of the Soil and Water Conservation Districts'. For 10 years she made and donated a quilt to be auctioned of at their annual meetings, and the project raised about $5,000 for scholarships.
