Roberta Norris

No service was scheduled at the request of Sequim resident Roberta M. Norris, who died May 5 2014 at the age of 93.

She was born July 3, 1920, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, to Norman Prout and Bertha E. Holmes-Prout.

Her education was received at the Halifax Grade School, Whitman High School, and

Pierce Secretarial School in Boston, Massachusetts.

She was married to Robert L. Burgeson in 1947. The marriage ended in divorce in 1953. They had one child,

James R. Burgeson.

Roberta married Harold R. Norris in August 1959.

She was a secretary for Liberty Mutual Insurance, Simpson Timber Co., Blythe and Co. and the Sequim School District.

World travel, water aerobics, reading and hiking were her main interests.

Roberta and Harold moved from Seattle to Sequim in 1974.

Mrs. Norris is survived by her husband, Harold, of Sequim; son James and his wife Sherry; and their son, Roberta’s grandson, Michael, all in Austin, Texas.

She also has an older sister, Norma Baum, 96, in San Antonio, Texas.

Interment will be at the Forest Glade Cemetery, Wakefield, Massachusetts in the family plot.