She grew up in Nevada and attended Nevada schools. She worked at J.C. Penny’s for eleven years and later for South West Psychiatric Rehab Center in Nevada and El Dorado Springs for twenty-six years before retiring. She married James Fanning in 1960 and he passed away in 1967, then married Bill Carrol in 1968 and later married Terry Short in 1983 and he preceded her in death in 2000. Norma enjoyed camping, fishing, gardening, and rock hunting. She especially enjoyed family get-togethers and her dog Koko. Norma is also preceded in death by her parents, a brother Robert Cargill and a sister Bobbie Miller.
She is survived by her children; Toni Chadd, Milo, Sherry Pruitt, Nevada, Wes Fanning, Nevada, and Natalie Foreman, Nevada; eleven grandchildren, Jake Chadd, Johno Chadd, James Chadd, Heather Chadd, Dusty Pruitt, Justin Pruitt, Kellie McClure, Lacy Williams, Kadence Fanning, Nicole Foreman, and Brett Foreman; seventeen great-grandchildren; a sister, Maxine Polk and husband Lonnie of Nevada; brother, Eddie Cargill, Nevada and numerous nieces, nephews, extended family, and special friends. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, December 28, 2017 in the Ferry Funeral Home Chapel with Brother Jerry Pyle officiating. Interment will follow in Lefler Cemetery in Dederick.
Visitation will be from 5:30- 7:00 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Vernon County Cancer Relief in care of Ferry Funeral Home.
