Norma Lawrence Morgan
2008
Norma L. Morgan, 84, a former president of the Sumner Garden Club in  Bethesda, died May 25 at Sibley Memorial Hospital after a fall a week earlier at  her home in Bethesda.
Mrs. Morgan lived in the Sumner neighborhood of Bethesda and was a member of  area citizens groups. She was a member of St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church in  Bethesda and the Chevy Chase Club.
Norma Lawrence was born in Mitchell, S.D., and raised in Washington. She  graduated from  Wilson High School and attended George Washington  University.
During World War II, she was a secretary for the War Production Board and did  volunteer work for the United Service Organizations and Army-Navy Wives Club.
Her former memberships included the Washington Club and parents' groups with  St. Albans School and National Cathedral School.
Her husband, Joe V. Morgan Jr., whom she married in 1943, died in 1999.
Survivors include three children, Carol Compton of Falls City, Ore., Jo L.  Morgan of Bethesda and Susan Maguire of Tampa; three grandchildren; and two  great-grandchildren.
-- Adam Bernstein