MAY LOUISE (ADAMS) REEL (100yrs 8mo) On this day, December 26, 2017: The Gold Carillons of Heaven and the Choir of the Great White Throne sang in beautiful harmony when Mom arrived in Heaven today. Mom was a wonderful and caring Wife and Mother. She was always a "most gracious Lady".

"To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord" (2 Corinthians 5:8).

May Louise Adams Reel was born April 28, 1917 in Paris Ill to the late Harry B. Adams and Lucy Clay Shipley Adams. May and Leo having moved to Houston in 1946 from Paris was a resident of Wharton Tx from 1968 to 2014. She moved to Cody with her son Ron in 2014. She graduated from Paris High School. She was a loving and devoted wife and Mother, a homemaker and helping hand in the family businesses. In November of 1935 she married Leo David Reel of Paris and Leo preceded her in death on December 8, 1986 just after their November 22nd 50th Wedding Anniversary. 2017 marks their 81st Wedding Anniversary. She was also preceded in death by her sister Hazel Kraemer, brothers Nolan, George, Lloyd and Fred Adams. She is survived by her 2 sons Ron and Steve and a daughter-in-law Betty, three grandchildren, five great grandchildren, a sister in-law- Eleanor Adams and 25 nieces and nephews. May was a member of the Second Baptist Church of Houston since 1948, a 47 year member of the Wharton Garden Club, The Phillimathians, Book Review and she volunteered at Gulf Coast Medical Center for 35 years until her health caused her to retire. A riding and camping Member of the Cody Boot & Bottle Riding Club.

According to her requests, there will be no formal funeral service: graveside services only. She will be laid to rest next to her husband Leo in the Edgar Cemetery, Paris Ill.

When May was born in 1917, the family Dr. Conklin came out to the house in his Doctor's Buck Board buggy and told her Mom Lucy, do not bother naming this girl, she will not make it through the night. May out lived them all with true delight and willingness of life. Her name was finally recorded at the Paris Courthouse in 1958.

For Leo and the family, She was a loving, caring and supportive Wife and Mother. Christmas was her special Season and she knew no limit to celebrating the Birth of Jesus. Christmas was a time of Feast in our home. May loved cooking and baking for every occasion and fund raiser in the community. She loved needle point, petite point, quilt making and other needle work. She also enjoyed ceramics and made many masterpieces over the years. May was very active in the Parent Teachers Association (PTA), Green Tree Garden Club Houston, and a long time volunteer as a "Pink Lady" at the Gulf Coast Medical Center (35yrs). A member of the Texas Aggie's Mother's Club.

May often entertained for the organizations she belonged to in her home several times each year. She often enjoyed smaller social events of Canasta and Texas "42" dominos. She was a member of Ada Cox Sunday School Class. May was Born into the Christian Church of Paris Ill. and attended Redman School prior to High School.

May was active and Charter Member of the Harris County Houston Fat Stock & Rodeo with Leo, she Loved horse back and trail rides, they often traveled in their Avion trailer around USA, she played Chicken foot with the Methodist Ladies, Cooked cookies and sent them to Vietnam for Ron, Officers in clubs and ran the chairs, a member of the Sage Creek women club Cody, and she was always a gracious friend and hostess.

As a girl, her job before going to school was to gather and wash all the chimneys of the oil lamps. Then she rode the old blind pony Daisy to school . May was a Life member VFW Ladies Auxiliary.

She often set a table for 85 in her Wharton home when Entertaining with fine Silver, Crystal and China. They often entertained Leo's important business customers through their Membership at The Houston Club.

She was many times the recipient of the blue ribbon or best of show in flower arranging competition.

Mom's request: " to those I love and those who love me, when I am gone, release me, let me go. You must not tie yourself to me with tears. Be happy that we had so many good years. I give you my love, you can only guess how much you gave to me in happiness. I thank you for the love you each have shown, but now it's time I traveled on alone. So grieve a while for me, if greave you must, then let your grief be comforted by trust. It's only for a while that we must part. So, Bless the Memories within your heart. I won't be far away, for life goes on. So if you need me, call and I will come. Though you can't see nor touch me, I will be near, with all my love around you so soft and clear and then when you must come this way alone, I will great you with a smile and say welcome home"- Mom.

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Mailing PO Box 1046, Cody, WY 82414. Memorials may be made to the Church or charity of your choice.

Visitation will be from 5-7 PM Wednesday January 3, 2018 at the Stewart and Carroll Funeral Home and graveside services will take place 10:00 a.m. Thursday, January 4, 2018 in Edgar Cemetery in Paris, Illinois with burial in the Edgar Cemetery.

For more information and online condolences please go to www.stewartandcarrollfuneralhome.com