Doris Mae Norton, 81, of Blair and formerly of the Oakland-Craig area, died Saturday, Oct. 25, 1997, at Memorial Community Hospital in Blair.

Services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Palmquist-Pelan Funeral Home in Oakland, Neb. Rev Greg Hall will officiate. Burial will be in the Craig Cemetery at Craig, Neb.

Mrs. Norton was born June 28, 1916 in Elkhart, Iowa to Frank and Carrie (Maxwell) Williamson. She accepted Jesus at the age of 16 at Cory Grove in the church her Williamson grandparents had helped to build in the 1800s. Her grandfather Williamson served as its pastor. On April 23, 1938, she married William Steven Norton at Dexter, Iowa. They lived in the Oakland and Craig area until his death in 1980. She then moved to Blair to live with her daughter, Linda Mutum.

Survivors are her daughter and son-in-law, Linda and Larry Mutum of Blair, Tom Norton of Naponee, Nebr. and Dan and Rita Norton of Lyons, Neb; nine grandchildren, Paul and Cindy Norton, Bill and Carly Norton,all of Craig; Darin and Mary Seligman of McCook, Neb.; Steve and Carrie Norton of Rulo, Neb; Dan Norton of Lyons; Shane and Melissa Banzahf of Naponee; Amanda Norton of Fremont; Larry Mutum, Jr. of Shenandoah, Iowa; Dan and Lisa Mutum of Lyons; 12 great-grandchildren; a sister, Ruth Mathis of Bondurant, Iowa; and a brother, Paul Williamson of St. Charles, Iowa.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; two sons, Larry and Jerry; a granddaughter, Tammy and three brothers, Glen, Henry and Albert.

Casket bearers will be her grandchildren, Paul North, Bill Norton, Steve Norton, Dan Norton, Darin Seligman, Shane Banzahf, Dan Mutum and Larry Mutum.

Ruth Wallerstedt will be organist. Patty Miller will be vocalist.

Memorials may be given to the family.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~