{"id":30663,"date":"2025-11-13T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=30663"},"modified":"2025-11-13T11:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:44:14","slug":"norma-jean-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/norma-jean-lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Norma Jean Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Norma Jean Lawrence, age 95, of rural Portland passed away on Wednesday November 12, 2025 in Crown Pointe in Portland.&nbsp;&nbsp;She was born in Blackford County on October 28, 1930 the daughter of Walter and Letha Pearl (Ford) Knox.&nbsp;&nbsp;She was a 1948 graduate of Roll High School, worked in school cafeteria at Poling and Bloomfield schools, managed Essen Platz Restaurant at Amishville for thirteen years and worked for Bearcreek Farms for twenty years.&nbsp;&nbsp;She was a member of Bryant Senior Citizens , Bryant Wesleyan&nbsp;&nbsp;Church and Jay County Hospital Aux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"419\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Norma-Jean-Lawrence.jpg?resize=419%2C559&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30664\" style=\"width:221px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Norma-Jean-Lawrence.jpg?w=419&amp;ssl=1 419w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Norma-Jean-Lawrence.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Surviving is three sons William \u201cBill\u201d Lawrence of Bluffton, Charles Lawrence (wife Sheryl) of Portland and John Lawrence (wife Kelli) of Portland, three daughters Patricia Frazee (husband Ralph) of Pennville, Roberta \u201cRobin\u201d Myers (husband Dave) of Bryant and Martha Hogg of Linn Grove, 20 grandchildren, 42 great grandchildren and 7 great great grandchildren<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was preceded in death by sisters Ellen Knox and Betty Hardt and son in law Randy Hogg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funeral services will be Monday November 17<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;at 10:00 AM in the Baird-Freeman Funeral Home with Pastor Paul Van Cise presiding.&nbsp;&nbsp;Burial will be in the Garden of Memories in Muncie.&nbsp;&nbsp;Visitation will be Sunday from 12:00 \u2013 3:00 PM in the funeral home.&nbsp;&nbsp;Memorials can be made to the Jay County Cancer Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norma Jean Lawrence, age 95, of rural Portland passed away on Wednesday November 12, 2025 in Crown Pointe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-30663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-obit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30665,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30663\/revisions\/30665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}