Class of 1956
1956 Maroon Spotlight
Marilyn Norman
Band 53-56, Class Assembly 53-54, United Nations Assembly 55-56.
1956 Graduation EditionPerry Daily Journal
Marilyn Lou Norman plans to join her twin sister, Carolyn Sue, in entering an Enid business college after graduating from high school. She was born Aug. 17, 1938, in Canton, and came to Perry with her family in 1944. She is the daughter of Mrs. Gertrude Norman, 823 Sixth street. Marilyn has played in the PHS band percussion section since 1953, and sang with the glee club in 1952-53. The drum ensemble of which she was a member has won five ratings of superior. Her favorite subject is typing, and reading is her hobby. One of the outstanding points of her high school period has been a trip to New York City on a United Nations pilgrimage for youth last summer.
Marilyn Lou (Norman) Wasemiller
August 17, 1938 – September 29, 2022
Marilyn Norman Wasemiller, 84, of Snohomish, Washington, died at her home on Thursday September 29, 2022, in Snohomish.
Born on August 17, 1938, in Canton, Oklahoma, she was the daughter of Ernest and Gertrude Norman. The family moved to Perry, Oklahoma, when she was six, just in time to start school. She was a 1956 graduate of Perry High School and a Perry Maroon Band member. She graduated Enid Business College in Enid, Oklahoma, in 1958.
Her working career began at Dial Finance in Oklahoma City. She spent most of her working days with Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, and retired in 2000 after 35 years with the company. Her last job at Ford was as Personnel Services Supervisor in labor relations at the Rouge. She loved all the factory workers she cared and fought for the whole time she was there. After she retired, she moved to Washington state to be closer to her son.
She always enjoyed traveling with her son, puzzles and reading.
Survivors include: her son, Mark Wasemiller, and wife Irena; her sisters, Rozetta Beasley of Matthews, North Carolina, and Carolyn Wilda of Richmond, Texas; and lots of nieces and nephews and their families.
Preceding her in death were her parents and sister Margaret Froebel.
Per her wishes there will be no formal funeral or memorial service.