OBITUARY: Norlayne R. (Taylor) Burhite, 1921-1997, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Based on Obituary in Mason City Globe Gazette; April 4, 1997]




                         Norlayne R. Burhite

NORA SPRINGS, IOWA--Norlayne R. Burhite, 76, of Nora Springs, died Wednesday,
April 2, 1997, at the Nora Springs Care Center.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the United
Methodist Church, 202 N. Hawkeye, with the Rev. Richard Pippert officiating.
Burial will be at 1 p.m. in the Osage Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the Sheckler Colonial
Chapel, 114 N. Hawkeye.

Norlayne R. Burhite was born March 21, 1921, in Osage, daughter of Hubert
and Doris (Gardner) Taylor.

She married Gerald Wayne Burhite on March 24, 1940, at the Little Brown
Church, Nashua, Iowa.

Norlayne grew up in Osage and graduated from Osage High School in 1938.

She served as personal director and assistant administrator at both the
Park Hospital and North Iowa Medical Center from 1957 to 1979.

She enjoyed camping, playing the organ, genealogy and living by the river.

She was a member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.

She was a member of the United Methodist Church being active in the United
Methodist Church Women and the Methodist Youth Fellowship.

Survivors include one son, Gary Burhite and his wife, Norine, Derby, Kansas;
three grandchildren, Captain Bradley Burhite, Goldsboro, N.C.; Cynthia
Ranco and her husband, Joseph, of Raymond, Maine; and Brent Burhite, a
college student in Wichita, Kan.; and one sister, Lois Smith, Wichita
Falls, Texas.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and her husband, Gerald, on
March 21, 1996.



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