June 26, 2009
Former Arab Ambulance Service Director Carol Maze, age 59, died Thursday from a stroke suffered on Wednesday.  Maze had been in Marshall Medical Center North on life support since she was found unconscious on the floor by her son Joey Maze.  Maze had overcome a previous stroke, a grinding car crash, and other health issues.

Funeral services for Maze will be 3 pm Saturday at Arab Heritage Memorial Chapel.  Visitation is set for 6-9 pm Friday night.

Carol Maze began working for the City of Arab in 1983 as a police dispatcher.  She moved to the Ambulance Service in 1986.  Maze was named director of the volunteer ambulance service in 1991.  The ambulance service became a full time operation with 24 hour paid staffing in 2001.  Maze was well known in the community and was awarded the Arab Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Citizen of Achievement Award in 1994.

In August of 2006, Maze was arrested after a meth lab was discovered in her home.  She was charged with the manufacture of a controlled substance.  Those charges were later dropped after her son Roger Maze, who had fled the area after the drug raid, was captured in Louisiana.  Ricky Phillips, Marshall County Drug Enforcement Unit Director at the time, said he did not believe that Maze was directly involved in the manufacture of meth or the operation of the lab.  Maze was fired from her ambulance service position.  A few months later she was involved in an automobile accident near Wal-Mart and spent several weeks in the hospital and months of recovery.