Norene Newville

B: November 8, 1929
D: OCTOBER 2, 2019

Norene Newville, 77, of Lexington died Tuesday, Oct. 2, at her home. Graveside services will be 10 a.m. Thursday at Lexington Cemetery, with the Rev. Forest Weast officiating.Wilson-Little Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

Norene Brown was born Nov. 8, 1929, in Johnsonville, near Byars, on her family homestead, to Abraham Lincoln "Linc" Brown and Bessie Estelle (Davis) Brown Wiley. She began school at Dolberg, near Rolff, in 1935. She lived in Murray and Garvin counties most of her life. She moved to Oklahoma City, where she finished high school at Central High. She and Hubert Earl Newville were married Dec. 8, 1950, in Oklahoma City.

She served as secretary and clerk at Soldier Creek Baptist Church for many years. A Lexington resident since 1966, she was active in the Lexington First Baptist Church, serving as secretary and clerk. She graduated from East Central University in Ada with a BA in English.

In her later years, she served as a teacher's aide for the Lexington Public School System where she was employed at the time of her death.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 1977; one grandchild, Robert Newville; two infant sisters and another sister, Mildred Chavez; one brother, Forest Brown; and daughter-in-law Terri Klepper Newville.

She is survived by two sons, Russell Newville of Lexington and Ronald Newville and wife Cathy of Norman; a daughter, Ann Nellessen and husband Don of Fond du Lac, Wis.; two brothers, Frank Brown and wife Betty of Marysville, Calif., and W.J. Brown and wife Betty of Los Angeles, Calif.; a sister, Jewell Loggins of Oklahoma City; a grandson; three stepgrandchildren; one great-grandchild, and four stepgreat-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to the building fund at First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 507, Lexington, OK 73051