Lela Mae Norton

Examiner-Enterprise Newspaper

Tuesday, Sep. 12, 1983 pg. 7

Submitted by: JoJo

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 was at 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.

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