Norma Grace Husk
Uniontown
Norma Grace Husk, wife of the Reverend Doctor Arnold G. Husk, a retired elder in the West Virginia United Methodist Annual Conference, died on Monday, April 22, 2024. She was 80 years old.
A daughter of the Reverend H. Melvin and Ednah J. Frost Shultz, she was born in Connellsville, on February 6, 1944. She married Reverend Husk on August 6, 1966.
She graduated from Georgetown High School, in Georgetown, Delaware in 1962. After living there with her parents while her father completed seminary in Washington, D.C. She attended West Virginia Wesleyan College and graduated in 1966. She also met her husband there and they spent 40 years in active ministry in West Virginia. After Arnold’s retirement in 2003, they moved to Uniontown, to be closer to her parents who were living there.
Norma had a special love of music, she played the piano and organ and always sang in the choir wherever they served. She also participated in musical activities in the community as well. After retirement, she sang with the Greater Uniontown Chorale for many years.
She used her teaching talents to teach Sunday School, VBS and give children’s sermons. She was a faithful member of the United Methodist Women and had held offices on the local, district and conference levels.
She also enjoyed her membership in the Hopwood Garden Club and served as secretary. She had many friends in the Club.
In addition to her duties as a minister’s wife and mother of Lorri and Kevin, Norma did substitute teaching in the various counties in West Virginia where they were serving. In 1982 she was hired to teach special education and continued to teach for 21 years in West Virginia. She also became a certified school librarian and worked for several years in the field. Norma was a gracious, loving and faithful servant of the Lord.
She enjoyed reading, cooking, writing letters to several friends and interacting with two pet cats.
Along with Arnold, she loved her daughter, Lorri; her son, Kevin; daughter-in-law, Amy; and grandchildren: Aidan, Gavin and Leah.
Friends and family will be received in the DEAN C. WHITMARSH FUNERAL HOME, 134 West Church Street, Fairchance, from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 25. Additional visitation in the Walnut Hill United Methodist Church, 132 Collier Road, Uniontown, from 10 to 11 a.m., the hour of service, on Friday, April 26, with Pastor Pete Malik officiating. Entombment will follow in LaFayette Memorial Park, Brier Hill.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Walnut Hill United Methodist Church or Chalk Hill United Methodist Church.