OBITUARY: Gea Mabel (Field) Norby, 1896-1988, Mitchell County, Iowa




                        Gea Mabel Field Norby

Gea Norby, 92, of Osage died Sunday March 27, 1988 at a Mason City hospital.
Funeral services will be Wednesday March 30th at the Rock Creek Lutheran
Church.  The Rev. Roger Hoppenworth will officiate with burial in the
Rock Creek Lutheran cemetery.

Gea Mabel Field was born March 7, 1896 in West Cedar Township, Mitchell
County, Iowa, to Martin and Gunhild Moe Field.  She attended the rural
Cedar #7 school and graduated from the Cedar Valley Seminary in Osage.

On June 5, 1919, she was married to Tillman Norby at her family home.
They farmed in Rock Grove Township, Floyd County, IA until moving to
Osage in 1961.

She was a life long member of Rock Creek Lutheran Church where she was
baptized, confirmed and was an active member of the Ladies' Aid and her
church circle.

Survivors include four sons: Robert and Raymond, both of Rudd, Harold of
Nora Springs, and John of Osage.  Also surviving are fourteen grandchildren,
23 great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, two sisters, Mina
Wamstad and Olga Field and one brother, Oscar Field.



    Copyright 2005 Steve Norby