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The family soon moved to Petaluma where they lived on Western Avenue, and later to a poultry ranch on Ely Road. Maxine's dedication to information and history propelled her from high school book shelver at the Petaluma Library to regional director of the south county libraries in Alameda County. After receiving her associate degree at Santa Rosa Junior College she earned her bachelors and masters degree in library science from U.C. Berkeley and became the librarian at the Petaluma Public Library. She also served as a reference librarian in Red Bluff and worked at Northbay Library Services in Santa Rosa. After marrying William Durney she moved to Los Molinos (Tehama County) where she and Bill raised three children. During her years in the central valley, Maxine was a local 4-H leader, studied botany, assisted with Bill's plumbing business, and resumed her library career. After several years in Petaluma and Fremont, they retired to Petaluma in 1979 where their home became a center for family gatherings. Maxine's keen inquisitiveness about the world and appreciation for current events and history imbued in those around her an interest in local and global affairs. As a member of the Board of the Southern Sonoma County Resource Conservation District and a member of the California Native Plant Society, Maxine volunteered much time to community and environmental causes. She led projects including negotiations between dairy farmers and conservationists and the establishment of roadside signage to increase public awareness of watershed boundaries and creeks in southern Sonoma County. A Democrat throughout her life, she undertook an active part in politics, and in 1984 she traveled to Iowa to work in the presidential campaign of California's Senator Alan Cranston. Her lifelong appreciation of nature and wild California began with childhood camping trips with her family on the Mattole River and the California coast. Later, she enjoyed camping, hunting and fishing trips with her husband Bill, and taking her grandchildren camping with Coastwalk. She fostered in her children and grandchildren the enjoyment of the outdoors, flower identification and watercolor painting, as well as a love of reading and appreciation of art, music, and the theater. She loved to travel, visiting friends and relatives in Kenya and Japan, visiting and helping with childrens' programs in India and Russia, and taking grandchildren to the historic sites in Boston and Washington, D.C. Her interest in history was sparked by her heritage as a great granddaughter of Sarah Graves Fosdick, a Donner Party survivor and early Calistoga teacher. Maxine became a central source of family history. She also conducted numerous interviews and collected letters and memoirs for the Petaluma Chicken House Project, a much-used historical library resource. 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