BURHITE, Norlayne R. 1921-1997

BURHITE, TAYLOR, GARDNER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/22/2009 at 16:14:45

Norlayne R. Burhite

NORA SPRINGS, IOWA - Norlayne R. Burhite, 76, of Nora Springs, died Wednesday (April 2, 1997) at the Nora Springs Care Center.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the United Methodist Church, 202 N. Hawkeye, with the Rev. Richard Pippert officiating. Burial will be at 1 p.m. in the Osage Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the Sheckler Colonial Chapel, 114 N. Hawkeye, and will continue one hour prior to services at the church on Saturday.

Norlayne R. Burhite was born March 21, 1921, in Osage, daughter of Hubert and Doris (Gardner) Taylor. Norlayne grew up in Osage and graduated from Osage High School in 1938.

She married Gerald Wayne Burhite on March 24, 1940, at the Little Brown Church, Nashua. She served as personal director and assistant administrator at both the Park Hospital and North Iowa Medical Center from 1957 to 1979.

She enjoyed camping, playing the organ, genealogy and living by the river. She was a member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a member of the United Methodist Church being active in the United Methodist Church Women and the Methodist Youth Fellowship.

Survivors include one son, Gary Burhite and his wife, Norine, Derby, Kan.; three grandchildren, Captain Bradley Burhite, Goldsboro, N.C.; Cynthia Ranco and her husband, Joseph, of Raymond, Maine; and Brent Burhite, a college student in Wichita, Kan.; and one sister, Lois Smith, Wichita Falls, Texas.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and her husband, Gerald, on March 21, 1996.

GLOBE GAZETTE - 04/04/1997