NORMA LEE HART

SHELDON- Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, at Ferry Funeral Home in Nevada, for Norma Lee Hart, 90, formerly of Sheldon, who died Sunday, May 31, 2020, at Truman Healthcare and Rehab in Lamar, following a brief illness. Pastor Brent Jackson will officiate. Interment will follow in Olive Branch Cemetery in Milo.

The family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday evening at the funeral home.

The obituary may be viewed and condolences sent online at www.ferryfuneralhome.com.

Survivors include three sons, Stephen Hart and wife Charlotte, Sheldon, David Hart and wife Linda, Lamar and Phillip Hart and wife Eva, Sheldon; 10 grandchildren, Phillip Hart, Jr. and wife Rachel, Norma Lewis and husband Randy, Michael Hart and wife Starr, Charles Hart, James Hart and wife Sonja, Gregory Hart and wife Sara, Jennifer White and husband Tom, David Hart and wife Melissa, Elizabeth Colbert and husband Gary and Matthew Hart and wife Audrey; 32 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; two brothers, Herschel Glen Varnell and Kenneth Varnell; two sisters, Beulah McDowell and Oneta Lewis and numerous nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband Gus, she was preceded in death by seven siblings, Geneva Wilson, Leatha Vemer, Julia Dodd, Gerald Varnell, Mansell Varnell, Fred Varnell and Verla Jones.

Mrs. Hart was born November 24, 1929, in Mannford, Okla., to Jessie O. and Naomi A. (Stockdale) Varnell. She was united in marriage to Gus Eugene Hart on September 24, 1948, in Drumright, Okla. and he preceded her in death on May 26, 2010.

Mrs. Hart was raised in Mannford, Okla. and moved to California in the early 1950’s. She moved to the Sheldon area in 1966 and in addition to being a housewife she worked at the Nevada State Hospital for 20 years, retiring in 1987. She was known for her expert quilting, her love of music, gardening, cooking for her family and taking care of her grandchildren.