1923-2023

Mary Jane Hoover Woolverton Norman passed away in Canton on 13 September 2023. She was born in Montague to Samuel Zebordee Hoover and Ruth Ethel Haynes on 11 September 1923.

She attended school in Montague and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Canton.

Jane was preceded in death by her parents, Sammy Dee and Ruth Hoover; sisters, Baby Ruth Hoover Mc-Gee, Winnie Merle Hoover Pollard Erger; Margaret Nell Hoover Hickman Carelock; Vivian Joan Hoover Hamilton Covington; and spouses, Marvin Benford Woolverton Sr. and Kenneth Ray Norman.

During World War II, Jane worked at Consolidated Aircraft Corporation building bombers in a manufacturing facility in Fort Worth where she met Marvin Woolverton. Jane was one of the famous ‘Rosie the Riveters.’ Marvin and Jane wed on 13 November 1943 in Norman, Oklahoma, and were blessed with three children. The young family were farmers in the Eustace area. They owned a John Deere Tractor dealership in Kemp in the 1960s. Jane earned her nursing degree in the 1970s. Jane later married Kenneth Norman in 1981 in Miami, Oklahoma.

Jane had an antiques business in Canton. She is survived by her two brothers and sister: Sammy D. Hoover Jr. and wife, Peggy, Carl Joseph Hoover and wife, Rosetta, and Helen Kathleen Hoover Hightower; three children, Jeffrey Lynn Woolverton and wife Sheila, Marvin Benford Woolverton Jr. and wife Carrie Anne, Mary Catherine Woolverton and husband, Philip Alan Miller; 14 grandchildren and step-grandchildren James Ernie Woolverton, Billy Wayne Haralson, Michael Neal Schalchli and wife, Angela; Teresa Renee Woolverton and husband, Richard L. Mendoza; Greg Smith and wife, Joanna; Veronica Taylor Smith and husband, Matt Murphey; James Taylor Smith IV, Amie Benissa Woolverton and husband, Gary Wayne Height; Beth Ann Woolverton and husband, Christopher Glenn Hanks; Sarah Katharine Murphy and husband, Clay William Funk; Chelsea Anne Murphy-Roberts, Jason Alan Miller and wife, Judy; Garret Adam Miller, Logan Anson Miller and wife, Dayana; 27 great grandchildren and seven great-great grandchildren as well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Family received visitors at Eubank Funeral Home in Canton on Saturday, 16 September 2023. Service of Remembrance was held at Eubank on Saturday, September 16, 2023. Interment followed at Haven of Memories, Canton.