Stalker

Norma Jean Brown Stalker, 76, of Hilliards, formerly of Butler, met her Lord and Savior Tuesday at the VNA Inpatient Hospice of Butler.

Born Aug. 7, 1935, in Scrubgrass Township, Parker, she was the daughter of the late Wilson Edmerl Master and the late Ida A. Vorous Master Campbell.

In 1956, she graduated from the West Penn School of Nursing in Pittsburgh as a registered nurse.

After private duty nursing, she worked at Pullman Standard, Armco, now AK Steel, and at Moonlight Mushroom as an industrial nurse. She later owned and operated The Brown F.R.O.G. Massage Center in Butler for several years and then retired in 2007.

She loved working during the summer months at the Seneca Hills Bible Camp as one of the camp nurses. She was a long time member of the BMH Nurses Association. Norma was a charter member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in America, Butler, where she was a former president of the Women's Association. She was also a former member of the Saint Andrews United Presbyterian Church. Norma was involved with the youth missions at Westminster, had a strong calling for missions and was able to serve her Lord and Savior in Israel, Peru, Belize and the United States.

On April 13, 1957, she married Charles Zane Brown, who passed away on Aug 28, 1996.

On May 27, 2006, she married Earl H. Stalker, who survives her with their three sons, Jeffery Z. (Roxanne) Brown of Renfrew, Dana A. (Michelle) Brown of Puyallup, Wash., and Rodney (Emily) Stalker of Ridgeville, S.C.; four daughters, Crystal J. (Mike) Garrison of Butler, Cynthia E. (Denny) Fehl of Renfrew, Roxanne (Ken) Tanner of Kutztown and Rhonda (Mike) Devine of Pittsburgh; two stepchildren, Chrys Brown and Ellen Tavo of Florida; 16 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; three brothers, Wilson (Shirley) Master of Maryland, John (Mazie) Master of Clintonville and Bruce Master of Butler; one sister, Beverly (Larry) Kapp of Grove City; two sister-in-laws, Bonnie McDonald of Florida and Ruby Rickard of North Carolina; and a huge number of nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband and an infant child.

<B>STALKER</B> — Friends of Norma Jean Brown Stalker, who passed away Tuesday, May 1, 2012, will be received at the <B>Thompson-Miller Funeral Home</B>, 124 E. North St., Butler, from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday and from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday.Services will be at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in America at 11 a.m. Saturday with the Rev. Michael Harvey of the Seneca Hills Bible Conference Center and the Rev. Walt Coopersmith and the Rev. Daniel Ledford, pastors of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in America, officiating. Interment will be in Greenlawn Burial Estates.Contributions may be made to the Seneca Hills Bible Conference, 276 Damascus Road, Polk, PA 16342.Information and a private guest book are available at www.thompson-miller.com.