Evelyn Elizabeth Norman

Evelyn Elizabeth Norman (nee Gardner) passed away peacefully at her home in Decatur, Georgia on Monday, November 29, 2021 after a short illness.Evelyn was born in Rex, Georgia on October 13, 1922 and lived the first eighteen years of her life in Stockbridge, Georgia. After graduation from McDonough High School (1939), she worked as a bookkeeper for several years before moving to Decatur in 1942, where she met and married Alexander Stevens Norman. There she lived out the remainder of her ninety nine years as a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Evelyn was preceded in death by her husband, Steve Norman, her daughter, Nita Hicks, her granddaughter, Erin Hicks, her parents, Ruby and Wilburn Gardner, her sister, Dorothy Pullen, brothers, W.A. (Rip) Gardner and Jim Gardner. She is survived by her children, Steve (Hilda), Bill (Lei), Reba, Jane Sutton (Bob), as well as her nine grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren.