Norma Lee Bartley

Norma Lee Bartley was born November 10, 1926 in Keystone, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of George Martin and Edna Marie (Avers) Mills. Norma was raised and attended school in Keystone, graduating from Keystone High School in 1945. While attending Keystone High School, Norma was a varsity member of the State Championship basketball team. Norma was married to Thomas L. Bartley on April 25, 1947 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. The couple made their initial home in Sand Springs and then returned to the Keystone area. They had three children, Kenneth, Glenn and Cheryl. In July 1967, the couple moved to their home on Highway 51, just west of Sand Springs. The couple actually waited nearly two months after the home was completed so that the entire family could spend their first night together in the home since Ken was gone at the time serving a military obligation. Norma was employed for a few years as an oil and gas lease accounting clerk for the Texas Company in Tulsa. She later was employed as an assembler in the Pharmaseal Company in Mannford making hypodermic needles. Norma and Thomas were active and charter members of their church in Sand Springs; Brahmas Acres Bible Church for many years. Her hobbies included working puzzle books, crocheting, collecting rocks and bottles. She was an avid housekeeper and enjoyed maintaining her home for family and friends. She will be remembered for her cooking skills and always having plenty of food on hand for her children and their friends and any other family members that stopped by. She would prepare meals in the early hours of the morning when her children and their friends would come home late. She would greet you with, ìAre you hungry or let me get you something to eat.î Norma always considered her children as perfect children and stood by them no matter what. She was described by her family as a loving and devoted wife, mother and grandmother who was kind hearted and always had a smile on her face. She was a great mother. Her cooking skills were probably developed from assisting her parents with preparing meals for her ten brothers and sisters. Norma passed away on Monday, February 14, 2011 at the St. John Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of eighty-four years. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas L. Bartley on August 2, 1995. In addition to her husband, Norma was preceded by her her mother, Edna Marie (Avers) Mills; father, George Martin Mills; three sisters, Billie Sue Brewer, Gloria Wallingford and Carol Mills; three brothers Glenn Mills, Gaylen Mills and Doyle Mills; and a granddaughter, Tami Creekpaum. She is survived by her two sons and their wives, Kenneth and Pam Bartley of Sand Springs, Oklahoma and Glenn and Lynne Bartley of Sand Springs, Oklahoma; a daughter and her husband, Cheryl and Brian Sikes of Katy, Texas; eight grandchildren, Jennifer Deitsch and her husband, Row, Terra White and her husband, Chris, Jessica Bartley, Adam Bartley, Alexces Bartley, Audrey Sikes, Stacey Sikes, Phillip Sikes; four great-grandchildren, Sean Creekpaum, Jade Creekpaum, Adia Foster and Carlo Deitsch; two sisters, Elaine Medlock of Goodletsville, Tennessee and Doris Schwenk of Tulsa, Oklahoma; two brothers Wayne Mills of Cleveland, Oklahoma, Ronnie Mills of Mannford, Oklahoma; as well as a host of other relatives and friends. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 am, Friday, February 18, 2011 at the Mannford Christian Fellowship with Pastor Steve Quinnelly officiating. Burial will be at the Sinnett Cemetery under the direction of the Chapman-Black Funeral Home.