Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, December 30, at Gilliam Cemetery, with Rev. Don White officiating.  Pallbearers will be Steve Romine, Jimmy Leimkuehler, Bob Arms, Travis Norris, Jason Himmelberg, and Zach Kruger.  Honorary pallbearers will be Brian Norris, Will Norris, Frank Guthrie, Brent Young, Jase Norris, Jim Himmelberg, and Mike White.  There will be no visitation.  Memorials are suggested to the family choice in care of Weiker Funeral Home in Slater.

Born January 6, 1956 in Marshall, he was the youngest of four children born to the late Harold L. and Willie Marie Thomas Norris.  On March 3, 1984 in Slater, he married P. Kim “Kimmie” Bell, and she survives of the home.

Also surviving is his daughter, Wendy “Ninny” M. Guthrie and her husband Frank of Slater; his son, SFC William “Wilbur” A. Norris and his wife Becca of Stuttgart, Germany; five grandchildren, Kendall A. Guthrie, Paisley “Paisee” Ray Guthrie, Kaylee M. “K. Marie” Norris, Elizabeth J. “Izzy-B” Norris, and Jase A. “Jasey Poo” Norris; a brother, Galen T. Norris and his wife Sandy of Slater; a sister, Dorothy M. Green and her husband Sonny of Blackwater; nine nieces and nephews; numerous great-nieces and nephews; and two new great-nieces.  He was preceded in death by a sister, Patricia A. Cobb; Buzzy, Buckshot, and Buck.

Mr. Norris was a 1975 graduate of Slater High School.  In 1984, he began his love-hate relationship with the river, working for Laborers Union #662, as a deck hand, with the W.E. Ellis Company and Holiday Sand & Gravel, until retiring in 2006.  There is no greater love than the love he had for his grandbabies and the woods.

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