Mae Jannette (Jacobson) McCoy, passed way April 1, 2013 at her home with her family and Carol with Hospice of North Idaho at her side, loving and comforting her. Her parents homesteaded in North Dakota in the early 1900s. Mae was born April 14, 1916 in Williston, N.D., to Martin and Josephine Augusta Dokken Jacobson in a two room farm house by a midwife. She was one of 11 children and the last surviving child.

Mae’s survivors are her son Eugene Darrel McCoy and wife Janet McCoy of Arvada, Colo., and son Ronald Pearce McCoy and wife Sandra (Sandy) McCoy of Coeur d’Alene, four grandchildren, Sheila Lilly, Sherri Behr, Julie McCoy and Staci McCoy-Smith, seven great grandchildren, Brandi, Kimberly, Robbie, Rebecca, Victoria, Kendra and Cody, two great great grandchildren, Ezekiel and Lakia.

She was preceded in death by her parents, brothers; baby Melvin, Melvin Arnold, Clarence, Orrin, Donald, Edward and Albert and sisters; Anna, Olga and Ruth.

Mae learned to sew on a treadle machine at age of 4 and taught her mother to sew. Mae stayed on the family farm and her first site of Williston was at the age of 7 years old, her parents being Norwegian, spoke only Norwegian, so one of the first things for Mae to learn in school was English.

She went to a one-room school house for two years, then to a consolidated school.

Mae lived in Williston with her older sister and husband her senior year in high school, and worked under a government sponsored program “NYA.”

She graduated from Williston High School in 1935. Mae liked to dance and met Virgil E. McCoy at a dance at Judson Hall, Williston, N.D., they married later on Jan. 12, 1936.

Mae worked at Hedderich and Company until the boys came along, then worked at a day care where she could keep Eugene and Ronald with her. She attended a two-week class for the daycare program.

Mae and Virgil moved from North Dakota in 1945 to Sandpoint and then into the Coeur d’Alene area in 1946.

Through the years they bought, built and remodeled many homes before their final home in Post Falls. Mae moved to Coeur d’Alene in the spring of 2004.

Mae worked at J. C. Penny’s in Coeur d’Alene in from April 1947, until retiring there in 1972.

When they retired, they became “snow birds” to Yuma, Ariz., from 1972 to 1986. They very much enjoyed those years, many friends and the fun times. Mae was a charter member of the Post Falls Good San Club and the Post Falls Senior Center where she was a treasurer and worked on the Meals-on-Wheels Program for many years.

She was also a member of the Post Falls Nazarene Church and the Royal Neighbors.

She had many passions; gardening, flowers, sewing, crafts, reading and travel.

In her early years, you could find her at a campsite during hunting season with family and friends. She traveled to Alaska, the Caribbean, Hawaii, Mississippi River, Norway and the Holy Lands.

The family would like to thank Loyalton/Emeritus for the good times and the many friends she made there while in her home for the last nine years and for Hospice of North Idaho’s loving care.

Funeral service will be Monday April 8, 2013, at 3 p.m. at the English Funeral Chapel, 1133 N. 4th St., Coeur d’Alene with a onsite reception to follow.

Family suggests memorials be made to a Charity of donor's chioce. Please sign Mae’s registry and view online memorial at www.englishfuneralchapel.com.