Obit of Norton, Rev. John H. - Washington County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Lovena Norton   (Deceased)  17 Jan 2005
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Bartlesville Examiner
Tuesday july 3, 1979 Services Held for JOHN NORTON

Rev. John H. Norton, 72, died at 1:25 a.m., July 2 in the hospital in 
Jay,after several years of Illness.

Funeral services were conducted Thursday July 5, for Rev. John Norton in 
Colonial Chapel of the Neekamp Funeral Home with the Rev. James Bennett, 
president of the Christian Fellowship, officiatiing assisted by Rev.
Leo Bennett of the Free Holliness Church, Southwest City, Missouri and 
Rev. Leroy Sewell pastor of Midway Full Gospel Church,Oakhurst,Ok. Burial 
was in the White Rose Cemetery under the direction of the Neekamp Funeral
Home.

A native of Indian Territory, Mr. Norton was born in Ochelata, Feb.26,1907 
to John and Anna Amelia (Hall) Norton.  He was reared and educated in the 
Bartlesville area. As a young man he was married to Lela May Shoup on 
November 23, 1929 by Rev,Cobb. They made their home in Bartlesville area 
where he was active in construction and early day oilfield work prior to 
his becoming active as an ordained minister in 1937. Rev. Norton served 
with the undenominational fellowship with churches in VanBuren,Ark., 
Arkansas City, Kansas, Bartlesville, Jay, Nowata, Shidler, and Webb 
City,Oklahoma, Aztect,New Mexico, He was actively engages in Jay, in the 
church there for the past seven years, before his illness.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lela May shoup Norton, Jay, three sons, 
John L. Norton,Bartlesville, Jimmy L. Nortona and Delbert F.

Norton, both of Sapulpa, three sisters, Mrs. Jessie M. Clay, Arkansas 
City,Ks.,Mrs. Pearl Benefiel,Nowata, Mrs. Ruth Bridges, Arkansas City,Ks.  
5 granchildren and several neices and nephews.
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