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Ruth Norman

DODSON - Ruth Norman, 73, died Thursday, May 7, 1998.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today in First United Methodist Church in 
Wellington with the Rev. Joe Jernigan, pastor of Calvary Christian 
Fellowship in Shamrock, and the Rev. Keith Beverly, pastor of New Abundant 
Life Fellowship in Wellington, officiating. Burial will be in Dodson 
Cemetery by Adams Funeral Home of Wellington.

Mrs. Norman was born in Pleasanton. She graduated from Quail High School 
at Quail. She earned a bachelor's degree from West Texas State University 
and a master's degree in education from Southwestern Oklahoma State 
University in Weatherford.

She was a public school teacher for many years before retiring in 1989. 
She taught at Dodson, Wellington, Arnett, Bethany, Okla., Northfield and 
Quail.

Mrs. Norman also was a minister from 1989 to 1997 at New Abundant Life 
Fellowship, where she also was a member. She did missionary work in South 
Africa, Russia and England.

She married Bynum Hightower in 1947. He died in 1959. She married Clinton 
Norman in 1967 at Shamrock.

Survivors include her husband; a son, John Hightower of Plainview; a 
daughter, Cynthia Rowe of Dodson; a stepson, Kenneth Wade Norman of 
Hollis, Okla.; a stepdaughter, Kay Mead of Wellington; four sisters, 
Eloise Kucera of Wellington, Cleo McQueary of Amarillo, Ann Holman of 
Liberal, Kan., and Lyda Bussey of Rapid City, S.D.; a brother, John Aaron 
Jr. of Houston; two grandchildren; six stepgrandchildren; and eight 
stepgreat-grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to New Abundant Life Fellowship.

Amarillo Globe News - 9 May 1998
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