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