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| Mae Shorter |
| March 30, 1995 |
| © Cherokee, OK Messenger & Republican |
| Submitted by: Sylva Rhodes |
Mae Shorter
Alva, OK. -- Graveside service for Delilah Mae Shorter, 92, was at 3 p.m. March 22, 1995 at Timberlake Cemetery at Helena, OK. The Rev. Carl W. Hawkins officiated. Arrangements were by Wharton Funeral Chapel, Alva, OK. She died March 20, 1995 at Beadles Nursing Home in Alva.
She was born March 6, 1903, near Timberlake, Oklahoma Territory, to Samuel Burwell and Delilah Jane Coffield Williams. She attended the Tucker and Star rural grade schools and graduated from Helena High School in 1923.
On June 1, 1929, she married Walter Loyd "Amos" Shorter in Hillsdale, OK. They lived on a farm northeast of Helena. After his death in 1943, she moved into Helena. She worked for the Helena State School, Werner Grocery and Helena Public School where she cooked and drove the school bus. She was a member of Alva First United Methodist Church and a past noble grand of Helena Rebekah Lodge.
She is survived by a daughter, Jane Wyckoff, of Alva, OK.; three grandchildren; six great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandsons.
Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by four brothers, (Austin, Elmer, Ira, Estus Williams).
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