Winifred Eugenia Norris, age 99, of Tall Timbers, MD died Saturday, September 9, 2017at Medstar St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown, MD, surrounded by her loving family. She was born on March 16, 1918 in Scotland, MD on the family tobacco farm to the late Joseph Neal Norris and Eva Sadela Mayor Norris. She grew up helping her father in the fields of the family farm. At the age of 15 she moved to Baltimore where she worked as a waitress at the Jewish delicatessen, Sussman and Lev. It was there that she learned skills that she would put into practice for many years to come. She returned to St. Mary’s County to work at the greenhouse on the newly built Patuxent River Naval Air Station where she re-united with a childhood friend, Joseph Theodore (Ted) Norris whom she married in 1944. Together they celebrated over 50 years of marriage before his passing in 1995. She stayed home to raise their four children and she is remembered for her homemade soups that greeted the children when they came home from school each day. She raised cows, pigs and chickens, made her own butter and canned the vegetables from her huge vegetable […]
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