Obit of Norton, Lela Mae - Washington County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Lovena Norton   (Deceased)  17 Jan 2005
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Bartlesville,Ok.
Examiner-Enterprise Newspaper
Tuesday, Sept.12, 1983 pg.7

Lela Mae Norton


Mrs. Lela Mae Norton, age 69, former longtime resident of Bartlesville, 
and a Sapulpa resident for the past year, died Friday at 10:15 p.m. in the 
Bartlett Memorial Hospital,Sapulpa. following an extended illness.

Funeral services for Mrs. Norton will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday in 
the Colonial Chapel of the Neekamp Funeral Home. Rev. Leo Bennett, pastor 
of the Jay Free Holiness Church will serve as the officiant, and final 
committal rites will be accorded her in the White Rose 
cemetery,Bartlesville, under the direction of the Neekamp Funeral Home.

A native of Oklahoma, she was born in Oglesby, Dec.15,1913 and was reared 
and educated in the Oglesby and Bartlesville communities. As a young woman 
she was married to John Henry Norton, in 1929, and they made their 
residence in Bartlesville, where Mr. Norton was actively engaged in 
construction.

He later became an ordained minister undemonination fellowship, and served 
as pastor of the Jay Free Holiness Church for several years prior to his 
death in 1979. Mrs. Norton conducted her residence in Jay until August of 
last year, when she suffered a massive stroke and could no longer walk or 
talk. When she was taken to St.Francis Hospital in Tulsa, when released 
she was put in to Pleasant Manor Of Sapulpa. She was a member of Jay Free 
Holiness Church.

Casket escorts for Mrs. Norton's services were Jess Rupert, Jim Shamblin, 
Charles Wilkerson, Marvin Penrod, Don Phillips and Henry Phillips.

Mrs. Norton is survived by three sons, Mr. John Leroy Norton of 
Bartlesville, Mr. Jimmy L. Norton and Mr. Delbert F. Norton of Sapulpa; 
two sisters Mrs. Mary Allen of Little Rock,Ark.,Mrs. Ethel Ballard of 
Bartlesville, one brother, Mr. George Lee Shoup of Whitney, Tx; six 
grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Sept.4,1983
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