Sylvia Maxine Doshier

Services for Sylvia “Maxine” Doshier will be 11:00a.m., Thursday, May 7, 2015 at MMS-Payne Funeral Home Chapel. Maxine passed away on Monday, May 4, 2015 at the age of 79.
A loving mother and grandmother, Sylvia Maxine Doshier was born in Oologah, Oklahoma on December 9, 1935 to Herschel George Baldwin and Dortha Beatrice Dikeman. She married John Warren Doshier on December 15, 1951. Trained as a cosmetologist, she worked for Kenneth Brown Beauty Salon in Tulsa and as a teller at the Bank of Oklahoma, where she worked as a vault teller. However, the majority of her career was that of housewife and mother extraordinaire. A natural craftsman, she did oil paintings, sewed, quilted, knitted, weaved, a spinner, canned, gardened, and was gifted at growing flowers. She lived in Canada a few years where her dad worked for Peabody Coal Company near Forrestburg, Alberta, Canada.
For lack of other entertainment while living in Canada, Maxine learned to be a gifted knitter and shared her skills by teaching others to knit. All of the men in the family cherish her handmade socks for their warmth and durability. Maxine was extremely talented and would assume craft challenges with confidence and assurance that she would perform excellently. Making quilts was her specialty; family, friends, and many others were blessed by their beauty and warmth. She was thrilled to share her knowledge of quilting and spinning with anyone willing to learn. Many prizes and blue ribbons were won at quilt shows.
She loved to travel to San Francisco, riding the cable cars, visiting Fisherman’s Wharf and China Town. She once hopped off of the cable car in China Town to see what the main attractions were at a certain stop. Lying on her stomach peering into a basement window she discovered a Chinese restaurant. She insisted that those with her eat lunch there. The receipt from that meal was a treasured memento and recently discovered in her wallet.
Great adventures were a common place for her family, as her husband, John, was an employee of American Airlines, traveling to Arizona, San Diego, England, Canada, New York, Dallas, Seattle, Victoria, British Columbia, and many other trips related to John’s work. Every trip presented trials that Maxine converted into adventures. Stranded in Canada by an Air Traffic Controller strike, John and Maxine chose to ride back to the United States on a Grey Hound Bus since they had never ridden a bus before.
Maxine and two other friends with daughters in the Spanish club chaperoned a trip to Mexico City. The trials of traveling with teenage girls in Mexico in 1971 presented many challenges of appropriate swim suits, clothing, and solving female drama. Utilizing Maxine’s skills as a cosmetologist, each teenage girl wanted her to style their hair for the evening Spanish celebration. The girl’s last minute emergencies also required extensive clothing adjustments, sewing the clothing directly onto the girls and later literally cutting the clothing off later. Such memories produced hours of laughter.
Maxine’s children and their friends loved to gather at the Doshier home. It was a place where they knew they would be fed well, pampered, and always engaged in exciting/fun events. Friends always felt welcomed, accepted, and loved. Demonstrating her love for her children’s classmates, Maxine and John prepared a lavish post prom breakfast feast for 40 students and dates to end the night’s celebration.
Maxine and John took their grandson, to Disney Land in California. Unable to return all the way home by airplane, they rented a car in Dallas, with three other adults, as this was the only transportation available. With the active child riding on his grandmother’s lap the entire distance she never objected to the toddler’s relentless energy and constraint in the car, she was thrilled to spend time with him.
A special note of Maxine’s love and affection for her son-in-law, Johnny, was demonstrated by their normal greeting, “my favorite son-in-law” and” my favorite mother-in-law”. This was always followed by the acknowledgement that they were the only ones each other had.
Maxine’s passing was preceeded by her Parents, Husband, John, Son-John Russell “Rusty”, Brother- Bill Baldwin, and Sister- Carol Hirsch. Those family members that survive include her daughter Kathy Bussey and favorite son-in-law Johnny of Oologah; her grandchildren Andrew Bussey and wife Danell, Spencer Bussey both of Oologah and Molly Redyke of Broken Arrow; her great grandchildren Kian Copeland, Parker and Emma Redyke and Zoe Cheek; her sister Nadine Carter of Oklahoma City; her sister-in-law Camille Baldwin of Houston and her special caregivers Jeanie Stafford and Tara Lofton and many nieces and nephews who lovingly called her Aunt Magazine.
Those who wish to honor Maxine’s memory with a memorial contribution may do so by contributing to the Oasas Animal Shelter, P.O. Box 248, Oologah, Oklahoma 74053.
View and sign Maxine’s online tribute at www.mmsfuneralhomes.com