Ada Marie Mcreynolds

October 11, 1944 - July 1, 2017

Resident of San Jose

Ada Marie Ross-McReynolds, 72, passed away from cancer on July 1, 2017, at Stanford Hospital with her husband of 47 years and only child by her bedside.

Ada was born in Mansfield, Louisiana, where she attended DeSoto High School (1964). A member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., she received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Tennessee State University and married her classmate, John Michael McReynolds, on June 8, 1970. That year, Ada and John moved to Palo Alto, California, where John attended Stanford’s Graduate School of Engineering, and Ada took a temporary job as a nursing unit secretary at the hospital to pay his tuition. 30 years later, still at the hospital, Ada put her daughter, Anne-Marie, through Stanford—her proudest accomplishment.

In 2001, Ada retired to pursue her passion for baking cakes. She expressed herself through baking; she used cakes to communicate her feelings of gratitude, appreciation, and sympathy. The last cake that Ada made was an Italian Cream Cake as a thank you to all the hospital staff who cared for her. Ada died surrounded by her dearest hospital friends turned family.

Like with butter, Ada never measured love. She will be remembered affectionately as Mama Ada—everyone’s mom. A homemade-cake-on-your-birthday mom.

Ada is survived her husband, John; daughter, Anne-Marie; and siblings, Margaret, Emma, Annie Ruth, and Dale; and nieces and nephews.

The second born of eight children, Ada is preceded in death by her parents, Fred Ross, Sr. and Iola Jacobs-Ross; her eldest sister, Maggieel; her oldest brother, Fred, Jr.; and her youngest brother, Don.

Visitation will begin on Thursday, July 20, 2017, at 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. at Oak Hill Funeral Home and Memorial Park, 300 Curtner Avenue, San Jose, California. Rosary will be held at 7:00 p.m.

Funeral services are scheduled for Friday, July 21, 2017, at 1:00 p.m. in the Chapel of the Roses. A reception will follow directly after the burial.

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