Cowlitz-Statewide County WA Archives Obituaries.....Norton,,  Gail Millet 	 March 17, 2006
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Published in The Daily News on 5/3/2006.      www.tdn.com/obits

	
Gail Millet Norton, the beloved husband of Barbara Norton, and much loved 
father of his four children Rebecca, Benjamin, Sarah and Ruth, died on Friday, 
March 17 as result of a heart attack suffered immediately following a car 
accident in Edmonds, WA. 

Gail was born in Cashmere, Washington on August 24, 1922. He had one brother, 
Raymond, and his parents were Leora and Norman. Gail, better known to friends 
and family as Bud, was raised in Seattle, and graduated from West Seattle High 
school in 1939. He served in the military in Europe from 1942 until 1946. He 
attended and graduated from Washington State University. While attending WSU he 
met Barbara Dauterman; they were married in Longview, WA on August 24, 1947. 

Gail worked for the Longview Fibre Company for more than thirty years and 
retired in 1987. Barbara and Gail spent the first 15 years of their retirement 
at Lake Cushman, in a home built by Gail; they moved to Everett in 1999. 

Gail is survived by his wife Barbara, of Everett, and his four children, 
Rebecca Norton, of Seattle, Benjamin Norton of Falls Creek, Sarah Norton-Staal 
of Nairobi, Kenya, and Ruth Clark of Everett, as well as eight grandchildren 
including Tyler, Eleanor, Sophia, Alexander, Audrey, Benjamin, Isabelle and 
Dirk. 

Southwest Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. 

	


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