Norma Dean Greenlee Sterling

1932-2008

Norma Dean Greenlee Sterling, 75, of Hammond, La., died there July 1, 2008, at North Oaks Medical Center. Visitation is 9 a.m. Saturday at Hartman-Sharkey Funeral Home in McComb until services there at 11 a.m., with Jimmy Blalock officiating. Burial will be in Hollywood Cemetery.

Mrs. Sterling was born July 7, 1932, in McComb. She was the daughter of Dave and Bessie Davis Greenlee. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Rose Baptist Church in St. Rose, La., where she taught Sunday school for many years.

Her family said Mrs. Sterling was an avid reader, having read daily in Guideposts and her Bible. She was also an avid birdwatcher and a person who loved the outdoors, especially working in her flower garden. But probably her most favorite thing to do was to cook special meals for her seven children.

Mrs. Sterling was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Hyman Clinton Sterling; three brothers, Clyde, Dave and Johnny Greenlee; and four sisters, Joyce Sandifer, Bea Daniels, Anice Sterling and Helen Wilson.
Survivors include her seven children, Norman Sterling and friend Louana Bigner, and Gerry Sterling and wife Kathleen, all of Loranger, La., Peggy Smith Sterling of Tickfaw, La., Larry Sterling and wife Charlotte of Pass Christian, Jim Sterling and fiancee Sheila Wallace, and Judy Gaspard and husband Mark, all of Albany, La., and Myra Timberlake and friend Kenny G. of Kiln; two sisters, Betty Jean Burris of Long Beach and Estelle Blalock of Liberty; 22 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; her dearest friends, Dixie Boyd, Lillian Newman and Aunt Verna; and numerous nieces, nephews, other family and friends.

Pallbearers will be Mrs. Sterling’s grandsons.

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