Norma Lightfoot

Norma Jean Trout Lightfoot , a resident of Elkhart for 67 years, left this life on Saturday, October 17, 2015 at age 89 in Orem, Utah. She was born October 1, 1926 in Mason Twp., Cass Co., Michigan, to Claude Harvey and Blanche Gushwa Trout. She was raised on the Trout Centennial farm in Union, Michigan (Trout Road), where her sister and only sibling, Doris Joy Trout Powers, still lives. After graduating from Bristol High School in 1945, she worked in the office at C.G. Conn musical instruments in Elkhart. She married in January 1946 and had three children: Larry Dale, Mary Margaret, and Rosanna Jean Lawson. She worked at Miles/Bayer Laboratories for 31 years, retiring in 1991. She was an active member of St. Paul's Methodist Church in Elkhart for 60 years. She was an amazingly dedicated Christian, a kind and sweet peacemaker, and the most loving mother a child could ever have. She had many good friends. She loved to garden (flowers), travel, visit grandchildren, spend winters with her daughter in Florida, crochet, walk along the St. Joe River and golf. She spent the last years of her life with her son in Utah. She was especially close to her granddaughter, Angela Davis of Elkhart. She is survived by her sister, Doris Trout Powers of Union, Michigan and her three children: Larry (Carol) Lawson of Orem, Utah; Mary (Terry) Toth of Tucson, Arizona; and Rosanna (Chris) Glover of Rockledge, Florida. She has 12 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren. Her ashes will be buried next to her parents at the East Union Cemetery, in Cass County, Michigan. A private graveside service will take place on October 30th.

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