Mae Hoose

Service for Adilynn "Mae" Hoose was 1 pm, Thursday, February 23, 2017, at MMS-Payne Funeral Home Chapel. .Mae passed away on Sunday, February 19, 2017 at Wood Manor Nursing Home. She was 93 years old.

Born in Keota, Oklahoma on May 12, 1923, to Andrew Jackson and Attla (Holley) Norwood, Mae attended school first at Keota, and later Stigler,, graduating from Stigler High School with the class of 1941. At an early age, Mae began writing country music.This is something she loved, and it became a passion of hers through the years. With the connections she had, some of her songs were recorded, and she met many legends in the business, Conway Twitty and Buck Owens, to name a few.

On April 12, 1947, Mae married Thelmer Eugene Hoose in a Ft. Smith, Arkansas ceremony. The couple made their home in Blackwell for most of their life together, moving to Bushyhead in 1981, and later to Claremore in 1990. This has been home since.

In her spare time, Mae enjoyed spending time in her bountiful garden. Over the years, as her health began to fail, Mae just adjusted the size of her garden down to flower bed size, to be more manageable.

Mae was preceded in death by her parents, husband Gene, son-in-law Heath Chester, and her siblings Eldrena Lowe, George Norwood, Willard Norwood, Burnadene Allison, Dale Norwood, Juanita Peden, Barbara Baker, and an infant brother.

Those family members that survived include her daughter Melody Chester of Claremore; brother William "Bill" Norwood and wife Roberta of Chelsea, sister-in-law Jane Hoose of Broken Arrow, and her brother-in-law Perry Peden of Overland Park, Kansas; grandchildren, Joshua Hoose of Lubbock, Meagan Patat of Broken Arrow, Jon Chester and wife Emily of Hutchinson, Kansas, and James Allen Chester of Claremore, her great-grandchildren, Thomas Patat, Caroline Elaine Mae Bailey, Adilyn Mae Chester, Melissa Chester, and Allen Chester, and numerous nieces and nephews.

View and sign Mae's online tribute at www.mmsfuneralhomes.com