Catherine Norris:  

Life My Parents My mother, Alma, passed away in 1985 from Lymphoma (cancer). On March 26, 2011 my father, Boris, passed away at the age of 93 from natural causes. I was my "daddy's girl".....I will miss him and his daily calls. Although losing him hurts the hurt doesn't even compare to the hurt of losing my son, Mark, back in 2005. (Many people don't know I lost my only sibling, Ed, the day before Mark (who was my only child) died. Ed had lung cancer (didn't smoke) & from the day they found the cancer till when he passed was less than 3 mos.) My Spouse He was one of the GTE telephone men that came into my place of employment to install a new phone system. On September 11, 1975 we married and I inherited a ready made family. He had full custody of two girls, aged 5 and 10. In 1996 right after his father passed away Perry retired from GTE. He then turned around and began working at the Florida State Fair Authority in the telephone dept (which comprised of other men he knew from GTE & that had retired from there before him). In May of 2014 he retired from the Fair Authority due to having cancer in his right kidney which Moffitt removed completely. Since then we see who can get under the other's skin the quickest!! May 2013 I finally retired. No, I don't miss working and so far Perry & I haven't killed one another! It's nice to be able to come and go as we please (Callie's passing has allowed us to do this, finally!) ...Expand for more