MILFORD – Mary Elizabeth “Betty” (Hatch) Norburg, 74, beloved wife of Charles H. Norburg Jr., died March 4, 2007, at a Bangor hospital after complications due to pancreatic cancer. She was born Feb. 3, 1933, at Miles Memorial Hospital, Damariscotta, the daughter of Frederick J. and Eola S. (Jackson) Hatch. Betty grew up on the West Neck Road, Nobleboro, and what is now Camp Kieve, and later on Old Route 1. She attended school in Nobleboro and graduated from Waldoboro High School in 1951. Betty then graduated from the University of Maine, Class of 1955, with a Bachelor of Science degree in bacteriology. While at the university, she was active in Canterbury Club and the Maine Masque Theater. Betty was a member of St. James Episcopal Church, Old Town, which was a very large part of her life. She was active in the Women of St. James, the choir, the Episcopal Church Women and the Church Periodical Club, of which she was the diocesan coordinator. She was also church organist for a period of time, until multiple sclerosis prohibited her from continuing that duty. Betty served her church as senior warden, delegate to the annual convention, as well as, delegate to the tri-annual convention for Episcopal Church Women. After her children were grown, Betty went back to college and earned an associate degree in chemical addiction counseling and a master’s degree in education. She worked for some time as a counselor at the Women’s Halfway House, Bangor. Betty is survived by her husband; sons, Jonathan Frederick and his wife, Michele St. Martin, of St. Paul, Minn., and Ian Andrew of Milford; daughter, Karen Adair and her husband, Kenneth Varian, of Marshfield; two granddaughters, Katherine Mary Shumin “Cassie” St. Martin-Norburg, and Caroline Eugenie Jiaoping “Carly” St. Martin-Norburg; grandson, Dylan John Allen; brother, Arthur Jones of Newcastle; sisters, Millecent Ball of Damariscotta, and Ruth Applin of Wiscasset; many nieces and nephews and their children; and special friends, Marilyn Seavey, with whom she drank many cups of coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts, and Jean Marie Boddy-Johnston. A funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 7, at St. James Episcopal Church at the corner of Center Street and Main Street, Old Town. Refreshments will be served after the service in the church undercroft where family and friends may reminisce. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. James Episcopal Church, P.O. Box 183, Old Town, ME 04468, in support of the restoration of St. James organ.
MARY ELIZABETH ‘BETTY’ (HATCH) NORBURG
