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Normia Faye Stephens Loftis

7 Apr 1933 – 24 Sep 2013

Birth7 Apr 1933
Death24 Sep 2013
CemeteryChelsea Cemetery
Chelsea , Rogers County , Oklahoma , USA
Added byDaryl Watkins on 12 Oct 2021
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117648310

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Normia Faye Loftis A celebration of the life of Normia Faye Loftis will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday, September 28, 2013 at First Baptist Church in Chelsea. Burial will follow at Chelsea City Cemetery. Visitation will be Friday at the church from 1-7. Normia passed away on Tuesday, September 24, 2013. She was 80. Born in Delaware County, OK on April 7, 1933 to Owen and Bessie (Allen) Stephens, Normia was raised and educated in Delaware County where she attended school at Dry Creek and Clouds Creek and later Jay High School. Normia, along with her parents and seven siblings, lived in a modest home and the family made a living truck farming and saw milling. They also sold milk, cream and eggs and picked strawberries and green beans for other farmers to earn income. She and her siblings also picked berries to earn money for school clothes. Normia learned from her parents how to work hard and provide for a family. In September of 1950 Normia met James Loftis before he went into the service. With his first service check, James bought their wedding rings and they were married during his first furlough on June 20, 1951 in Bentonville, AR. The couple then returned to Columbia, SC where James was stationed for a short time. After James came home from the Korean War, they made their home on a dairy farm in Oklahoma. Their union was blessed with four children. In 1963, Chelsea became their home where they built a home and lived for the next fifty years. Normia was a wonderful mother and a strong, resourceful woman. Taking care of her family was her main priority. She made the children's clothes until they were old enough and then she taught them to make their own. She enjoyed cooking and made the best homemade bread. Spending time with the family was important and she would do what she needed to do so they could all be together. Normia was also always serving others. She often helped neighbors and friends with laundry, fixing their hair or whatever needed to be done. Crocheting and gardening were two of Normia's favorite pastimes. She loved planting and tending to her flowers. Normia volunteered for the Election Board and could always be found with a smile on her face at the polling place on Election Day. She was also a faithful Vacation Bible School Superintendent, always supporting her church family any way she could. An example of a Proverbs 31 wife and mother, Normia lived her life by these Godly principles; she was definitely a hard worker with a servant's heart and was indeed "a wife of noble character." This loving wife, mother and grandmother will be missed by all who knew her. Normia is survived by her husband of 62 years, James Loftis; children LaQuotta Haner and husband Tom, Lois Thomas and husband J.W.; Ramona Loftis and Peggy Atchley and husband Gary; grandchildren Lisa Ogden and husband Joe, Kerry Helms and husband Terry, Mendy Haner, Windy Smith, Jamy Brashers, Robin Horseman and husband Daniel, Tina Conner and husband Dustin, Nicholas St. John and wife Holly; 15 great grandchildren; siblings Elzie Stephens and wife Juanita, Ellis Stephens and wife Lois, Edna Fox and husband Gene, Eveline Bernard, Maxine Mattox and husband Gene and Imogean Schmidt. Normia is preceded in death by her parents and sister Freda.

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