Sunday, June 19, 2016
To Pat's (Nortie) family members and good friends,
I am so very sorry for your great loss. Pat was an amazing woman and will be missed by many of us. She was a good friend to me while I was growing up from a teenager to a young woman. We played ball together along with some other pretty amazing women. In particular, her very good lifelong friends, Pat Fowler and Margo Stone. They were always looking out for and taking good care of each other as well as the younger girls on the team such as myself. Nortie had a very light heart and was ALWAYS happy making her a great pleasure to be around and she was always so much fun! Nortie was 26 years older than me so being 18 years old (give or take a year or two at the time) would have put her at 44 years old and I never once felt that our age difference affected our relationship in the least. I just loved being around her, with her light, kind heart, her laughter and her super sense of humor :) I miss those days so much and I thank Norton for being such a big part of the best times in my young life. I believe that if Pat (Nortie) could speak to us all now, that she would say such things like; 'Don't sweat the small stuff! Surround yourself with family and good friends, take great care of yourself and each other, laugh often and always see the brighter side of things in life.
I loved her and I will keep her in my heart forever!
Marlene AKA 'Neilse'
