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On Thursday, February 3, 2022, Maurice Stanley Hoss passed away at age 94 in Sun City West, Arizona after a short illness. Maurice was born on January 20, 1928, in Allen, Oklahoma to Irene and Edward Hoss. He was the middle child of the family with an older sister, Win, and younger brother, Howard. His father was a driller in the oil fields of Oklahoma and the family relocated to towns around Tulsa, Sand Springs and Redfork. In the 1940's the family moved to Portland, Oregon, and lived with Irene's sister for a short time. Edward gladly ended his career as a driller and worked at Jantzen Beach, the amusement park on Portland's Hayden Island. While still in high school in Portland, Maurice earned enough money working small jobs for a bus trip back to Sand Springs where he finished high school and lived with his married sister and her husband's family. After one year at the University of Oklahoma, he enlisted in the Marines in 1946 and served as a radar and radio repairman.
After his military duty he returned to Sand Springs and worked repairing radios, appliances, and televisions. With his electronics experience he was hired by National Tank Company (NATCO) and worked in subsequent divisions of the company designing valves and pumps for the petroleum industry and earning four patents for his work. He later became the NATCO plant manager in Bakersfield, California, and in Gulfport, Mississippi.
He married Judith Buys in 2000 who he met in the Episcopal church choir in Lafayette, Louisiana, and retired to Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 2003. They moved to Meridian, Idaho, in 2011 seeking less dramatic weather and spent winters in Sun City West, Arizona, to have a full twelve months for golf and sun.
Maurice had the distinction of taking more than 20 years to earn a college degree because he took classes while working and had to change universities with each move. He was known by the hundreds of stories he told of growing up in Oklahoma during the Depression, stories of his work, his passion for golf, and his 280Z which he would casually drive to Canada on business from Tulsa starting late at night after a full day of work.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his sister and brother, and his first daughter, Marisa. He is survived by his wife, Judith Buys, his son Tim Hoss and wife Janice of Oklahoma, daughter Gretchen Hoss and husband Ben de Luna of Florida, and four grandchildren Lesli, Marisa, Eli and Noah.
He will be buried in the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery – Boise.
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