Updated: 18 Apr 2007
Stillwater News Press Newspaper
Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma
December 11, 2001
Nola Mona Norton
Former Cushing resident Nola (Mona) Shannon Norton, 95, died Tuesday, Dec 4, 2001, in the Mills-Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame, Calif.
Private grave side services are planned at Fairlawn Cemetery in Cushing. Davis Funeral Home is directing the arrangements.
She was born near Sulphur July 28, 1906, to Theodore Franklin Thassler and Mary Elizabeth (Adkins) Thassler. She was reared in the Edmond and Oklahoma City area.
On Nov 4, 1925, she married Jack E. Shannon in Ft. Worth, Texas.. He died Sep 15, 1959. The couple had two children, Beverly and Cliff. The family lived in Ft. Worth for a year before moving to Oklahoma City. In 1952 they moved to Cushing where her husband was employed at Escott's Red Bud Store as a manager in the meat department.
In 1974 she married Col. Richard A. Norton. He died in 1994. The couple made their home in Burlinggame, Calif. In addition to her husbands and parents she was predeceased by a son, Cliff Shannon, one sister and two brothers.
She is survived by a daughter, Beverly Stowell and her husband Bill; two grandsons and two great-granddaughters, all of New York.
Researcher: Leona Herman Kollman Garcia <lgarcia@ncia.com> [Jan 2002]