Norma E. Ploen
August 24, 1916 - July 28, 2007

Norma Ploen Services: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 31, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Durant. Visitation: 4-7 p.m. today, July 30, Bentley Funeral Home, Durant. DURANT, Iowa -- Norma E. Ploen, 90, of Durant, died Saturday, July 28, 2007, at Davenport Good Samaritan Nursing Home. The Rev. Fr. Marcia Kilpatrick will officiate. Musical selections will be by organist Deb Mohr and vocalist Henry Bentley. Her children will serve as pallbearers. Internment will be at the Durant Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to the American Heart Association. Mrs. Ploen was born Aug. 24, 1916, to Henry and Minnie (Belter) Ruhser in Durant. She married Henry J. Ploen Nov. 23, 1946, in Davenport. He preceded her in death Oct. 14, 1995. She graduated from Binghamton High School in Binghamton, N.Y. in 1934. During WWII, she worked at a defense plant in Sidney, N.Y. After returning to Iowa in 1944, she worked at the local telephone company, the White Way Restaurant, the Durant Bowling Alley, Jeff's Market and the Durant Community Center. She enjoyed fishing, playing cards, dancing and bowling. She is survived and lovingly remembered by her daughter, Virginia Marshall of Lewisville, Texas; her sons, James Seymour and his wife, Linda, of Davenport, Thomas Seymour and his wife, Susan, of Bettendorf, Gerald Ploen and his wife, Ronda, of Rock Island, Henry Ploen and his wife, Paula, of Rock Island and Vernon Ploen and his wife, Katherine, of Davenport; 17 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; a great-great granddaughter; and her sisters, Mildred Steffen of West Liberty and Lucille Wells of Durant. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Donald Seymour and Henry Ploen; her son, Steven Ploen; her sisters, Irma Decker, Lois Ruhser, Ruby Nesbitt and Dorothy Bennett; and her brother, Henry Ruhser.

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