Marie Norris, age 55, a native of Mound City, Ill., and a resident of Daphne passed away Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012, at home with her family at her side.
She attended Southern Illinois University majoring in Business and accounting. After a brief time in the Furniture business, she come south to Mobile to be Business manager and Accountant for a new radio station in Daphne. For the last several years she has been a faithful employee of several media companies, including Capitol Broadcasting of Mobile. For 17 years she has been employed by WNSP-FM, WZEW and Dot Com Plus. She adopted the employees and owners there as her own family and developed a loving bond with everyone at the station. Her departure is a great loss to them, the industry, as well as her family. She is survived by her loving husband, Durell Norris of Daphne; two step-sons, Stanley Norris of Mobile and Scott Norris of Gulf Shores; her mother, Helen Hood of Daphne; one brother, four cousins and many special friends. A celebration of life will be held Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012 at 7p.m. in the chapel of Wolfe-Bayview Funeral Home & Crematory, Inc. in Daphne. The family will receive friends and relatives one hour prior to the service. Her request that, in place of flowers, a memorial gift may be made to the following: TEAM UP! Against Cancer, P. O. Box 22018, Phoenix, AZ. 85028 or the Baldwin County Humane Society, P O Box 206, Fairhope, AL. 36533. ARRANGEMENTS BY WOLFE-BAYVIEW FUNERAL HOMES & CREMATORY, INC. DAPHNE. www.wolfefuneralhome.net.
