the attendants, the flower girls, and for the bride's mother. After retiring she started Norma's Cakes. She baked cakes for weddings, graduation and other events. Friends would ask to have her frosting recipe but that was top secret. Norma enjoyed baking and sharing her home baked goods with friends and neighbors. Norma enjoyed flowers. She had numerous flower beds and was always willing to share her flowers when she had extra. In 1969, she married Roger Palmer of Hampton. Norma and Roger would continue to live in the home she built in Hampton in 1962. Norma was a member of C.W.F, Kiwanis, and was on the Franklin General Hospital Board. She loved to volunteer and to help others. Following Roger's death she sold her home and moved to the Senior Center Apartments in Hampton. There she attended the Senior Center and volunteered her time. Preceding her in death were her parents, George and Ida; her husband, Roger; her brother, Bud; an infant sister, Helen Marie; a nephew, Bradley Abbas; and a niece, Donna Horner. She is survived by a special niece, Jody (Mark Malcolm), great-niece, Josie Abbas, sisters, Arlene (Donald Horner) of Hampton, Gertrude (Lee Himan) of Ames, Lena Salven of Marion; two brothers, George (Donna) Abbas and Bob (Ilene) Abbas, both of Hampton; and a sister-in-law, Dorothy Abbas, also of Hampton and many nieces, nephews, and friends. St. Peter's United Church of Christ Church Cemetery in rural Geneva, Iowa.