Rose Ann Hook

Rose Ann Lushoff Hook passed from this life on to her eternal home on April 23, 2018 in Plano, Texas. Rose was born on February 12, 1925 in Indianapolis, Indiana to her immigrant parents from Macedonia, Methody and Dora Lushoff. Rose was the youngest of three daughters. Her mother and middle sister passed away when she was only three years old. Her father raised her and her oldest sister alone without every remarrying.

Rose graduated at a young age of 16 from George Washington High School. She attended college for two years but World War II forced her to go to work. During the war, she was a flight surgeon’s secretary. She also worked at Ft. Benjamin Harrison Air Force Base and Stout Air Force Base. In 1946, she married Marvin Eugene Hook. Together, they had two daughters, Karen and Susan. She divorced when the girls were small and moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to be near her only sister, Vera and her family. She worked for Air Force Recruiting, Tinker Air Force Base and later the FAA.

In her spare time, she found time to volunteer for the school and hospital and to sew for her girls. Rose enjoyed the theater and the arts, and loved to dance and listen to music. She also was known as a Bingo Queen. Rose was raised in the Greek Orthodox Church but converted to Catholicism at the age of 21. As a devoted Catholic, she taught her two girls to pray the rosary every Friday night in front of an altar made from a trunk. She was involved in scripture groups with her church and worked in the church office and her favorite saints were St. Joseph, St. Francis, and St. Anthony. She loved the Greek Festival because it mirrored her native Macedonia and she loved to cook Macedonian food. To her family and friends, she was called Baba which means grandmother in Macedonian.

Rose worked for the Civil Service for 33 years and retired at the age of 55 to spend time with her five grandchildren. After retirement, Rose travelled to the Holy Land, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, and her parent’s homeland, Macedonia. She also made frequent trips to California and Texas to visit her daughters. In 1993, she took her youngest grandson, John, who was 14, to see Pope John Paul while he was in the United States. In 2008, she moved to Frisco, Texas to be near her oldest daughter, three grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. She also has one great granddaughter in California.

Rose is survived by her daughters, Karen Lindgren and her husband, Scott, and Susan Martin and her husband, Keith; her grandchildren, Amy Williamson, Alyson Patton, John Paul Whitaker, Whitney Martin, and Natalie Martin; and her seven great grandchildren.