ElDee Bangerter Norton Obituary (1943 - 2020)

Click HERE to view Funeral Services for ElDee Norton “The very things that held you down are gonna carry you up and up and up.” ~ Timothy Q. Mouse from Dumbo~ ElDee June Bangerter Norton, age 77 formerly of Columbia, Missouri, passed away Friday, July 24, 2020 at 4:15 a.m. Born in Kaysville, Utah on April 27, 1943 to Eldon Lionald Bangerter and Martha June Harvey. ElDee married James Stuart Norton September 10, 1963. They divorced in 1980. ElDee’s talents were many, she was an extremely accomplished seamstress, embroiderer, cake decorator, dance champion, pilot, jewelry maker, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and friend who loved to bring joy into everyday life. She enjoyed camping and traveling with her family throughout the United States. ElDee collected many artifacts and jewelry on her travels as well as local crafts and antiques. ElDee was a member of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America. She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ElDee is survived by her sisters: Suezan Rimmasch, Janell Kincaid, and Hazel Rimmasch; her children: Elizabeth Louise Norton (Benjamin) Grajeda, Daniel Arnold (Heidi) Norton, Janell Norton Wilson, Alan Fredrick (Nancy) Norton, William Stuart (Sarah) Norton, and Carolyn Norton (James) Ricker; 18 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. Preceding her in death are her parents, Eldon L. and Martha June Harvey Bangerter; her late husband, James Stewart Norton; and a granddaughter, Kelsey Anne Ricker. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, August 17, 2020 at the Murray Utah North Stake Center, 5200 South Glendon Way, Murray, UT. The family will receive friends from 8:30-9:15 a.m. Interment will be at 2:00 p.m. at the Riverview Cemetery, Green River, Wyo. We wish to thank the wonderful help and care given by Compassus Hospice of Columbia, MO and The Arbors at Bluff Creek, Columbia, MO. Condolences may be sent to the family c/o Grajeda Family, 964 County Road 281, Auxvasse, MO 65231. Funeral services are under the direction of Jenkins-Soffe Funeral Home, Murray, UT. “Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of Optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony of which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.” Gordon B. Hinkley