Norma Jean (Schumacher) DOYLE

DOYLE, THOMPSON, HARVEY, BERNARD, WALLACE, SCHUMACHER, BRIGHI, TRASK, MCCOY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/29/2006 at 21:45:20

Norma Jean Doyle 73, of Fort Dodge died peacefully at home with her family at her side on Friday, February 24, 2006. Funeral services will be 12:30 P.M. Tuesday, February 28th, in the chapel of Laufersweiler-Sievers Funeral Home and 1:00 P.M. at Corpus Christi Church with Rev. Lynn Bruch officiating at the Mass of Christian Burial. Burial will be in Corpus Christi Cemetery. visitation will be after 4:00 P.M. Monday at the funeral home where there will be a Catholic Daughters of the Americas Rosary at 4:30 P.M. and a vigil at 7:00 P.M.

Surviving are her children, Jeanne Thompson and her husband Greg of Urbandale, Mary Teresa Harvey and her husband Pat of Fort Dodge, Peggy Bernard and her husband Scott of Midlothian, VA, Carol Wallace and her husband Mike of Valdosta, GA, Michael Doyle and his wife Jean of Fort Dodge, Matt Doyle of Charlotte, NC, Timothy Doyle and his wife Susan of Fort Dodge; 28 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren; brothers, Robert Schumacher and his wife Phyliss of Ackley, Gerald Schumacher and his wife Judy of Clare, Richard Schumacher of New Virginia; sisters, Mary Sue Brighi and her husband Dick of Greeley, CO, Sharyn Trask and her husband Fred of Webster City. Norma Jean was preceded in death by her parents Carlisle and Charlotte (McCoy) Schumacher and her husband, Charles “Chuck” Doyle.

Norma Jean Schumacher was born December 19, 1932 in Woolstock. She graduated from Fort Dodge High School and received her R.N. from the former St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Sioux City. She then became employed at Mercy Hospital in Fort Dodge in Obstetrics for several years. In 1954 she was united in marriage to Charles “Chuck” Doyle at Holy Rosary Church in Fort Dodge and they established their home in Fort Dodge. That same year, they established Chuck’s Floor Service which they owned and operated until Chuck’s retirement in 1992. Norma was an active member of Corpus Christi Church and a member of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas. She was a Registered Nurse and a CNA Instructor at Iowa Central Community College. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be left to Hospice of Fort Dodge, the Cancer Doesn’t Care Program, or the Fort Dodge Catholic School System.

Source: Laufersweiler Funeral Home, Fort Dodge Iowa