NORMA WALLACE

Norma Elma Wallace died Wednesday at the Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. She was 80.

She was born in Dongola, Ill., on July 12, 1916, the daughter of Milton and Willie Harris Cobb. Nearly all of her life was spent in Cape Girardeau, where she was a housewife and also worked for Florsheim Shoe Factory in Cape Girardeau for 35 years. She lived in Pasadena, Calif., for 23 years, where she was employed by CBS Studios for 10 years.

At the time of her death she was a member of the First Church of Nazarene in Pasadena. She is a past member of Red Star Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by two husbands, William O. Adams and David Wallace, two brothers and two sons.

She is survived by two daughters, Shirley Hobbs of Cape Girardeau and Janis Taplin of Rancho Bernardo, Calif.; two sisters, Doris DeBoe of Cape Girardeau and Azalea Snyder of Junction City, Kan.; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be today from 4-8 p.m. at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel. The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the chapel. Burial will follow at Lorimier Cemetery.