Published by The Salamanca Press on July 25, 2023
SALAMANCA – Ivanna “Ivy” Hope Maybee, 14, of the Ohi:yo’ Territory, stepped off this earth Saturday evening (July 22, 2023) to join her ancestors and loved ones who have passed on before her.
Much in the same way she entered this world, Ivy was an unstoppable force. On April 8, 2009, along Interstate 86, Ivy made her arrival to her parents, Gina Larvie and Ryan Maybee, who survive.
She was an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians and the Wolf Clan.
Ivy was a student at Salamanca City Central School District, Class of 2027. She enjoyed STEM and technology. She excelled at art and was musically inclined. In the evening you could hear the strumming of her guitar from her room. She planned on enrolling in a trades certificate program to eventually move to a big city and become a tattoo artist.
During the last couple of years, she developed dynamic lacrosse skills playing modified and varsity on Ohi:yo’ Storm and modified Salamanca lacrosse teams. When she wasn’t shooting on the net in the backyard, she could be found distance target shooting or riding her skateboard.
Ivy, by all definitions of the word, was determined. She had a strong sense of fairness and took the position as a protector. Using her voice, she was an advocate for causes, such as Defend Ohi:yo’, Remember the Removal, MMIW, Residential School Survivorship, Mental Health Awareness and Teen Substance Abuse.
Surviving besides her parents are two older brothers, Brandon and Sachem; and older sister, Cora; three younger brothers, Holden, Brayden and Bow; and her niece, Estella.
She was predeceased in 2017 by her cousin, Alexandrea Kindt, and in December 2022 by an older brother, Andrew, whom she missed terribly.
Funeral services were held July 28, 2023) at the Coldspring Longhouse with speakers of the Coldspring Longhouse officiating. She was buried in Memorial Heights Cemetery, Jimersontown.
E-condolences can be sent to orourke.orourkefh@gmail.com or posted to facebook.com/onofh.
