Norma June Owens Thomas, 90, of Bedford, passed away peacefully on March 14, 2024, at Majestic Care in Bedford. She now has joined her husband, Dale, and Jesus Christ in Heaven.
Born May 24, 1933, in Needmore, she was the daughter of Charles and Gladys King Owens. She married Ralph Dale Thomas on March 25, 1955, and he preceded her in death on October 12, 2020.
Norma was the first paper girl in Lawrence County at the age of 14. She was a graduate of Needmore High School with the class of 1951
She worked as an assistant in Dr. Bridwell’s medical office in Bedford and was an assembly line worker at Sarkes-Tarzian in Bloomington. She stopped working when she and Dale adopted their first daughter, Rita Lee Thomas Kersh, in 1960 and adopted Lisa Dale Thomas Ramey two years later.
Norma was a member of Pinhook Church of Christ, The South Central Association of the Visually Impaired, The American Council of the Blind of Indiana, and the American Council of the Blind. She was an excellent cook and loved her family “a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.”
Surviving with her two daughters are three grandsons, Marcus Zachary, Michael Alexander, and Matthew David Conner Ramey; sisters-in-law, Jane (Don) Turpen, Nancy (Tom) Fletcher and Juanita Thomas; many nieces, nephews and great-nieces and nephews; honorary family members, Jeff and Susan Mundy, Megan (Danny) Gillespie and their children, Grayson and Eliza, Michael (Courtney) Mundy and their children, Ann and Beckett. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, brothers Charles “Dutch” Owens and Bill (Juanita) Owens, and a sister, Joyce (Harvie) Meadows.
Funeral service will be conducted at 12:00 noon on Monday, March 18th, in the Elmwood Chapel of the Day & Carter Mortuary with Walter Hunter officiating. Burial will follow in Green Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10:00 am until the hour of service on Monday at the Day & Carter Mortuary. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Council of the Blind of Indiana, P.O. Box 2216, Bedford, IN 47421.
Condolences may be expressed at www.daycarter.com.
