Dorothy Marie (Williams) Norton was born April 28, 1920, in eastern Kansas, in the Homewood community and passed away on December 21, 2015, at the Long Term Care Center in Springfield. She was the only child of Ralph and Alice (Baxter) Williams. While a small child Dorothy lived in various places in Kansas and Colorado, including the Vilas community on the land now owned by her son. She remembered there were no roads to Vilas, only trails across the prairie. Little did she imagine that she and her husband would live for over 60 years in a house approximately 1 mile from where she played as a little girl. The Williams family moved back to Kansas where Dorothy graduated with the class of 1939 in Lebo, Kansas. During high school she met Paul Norton, a young man too shy to ask her out. He eventually enlisted the help of his sister. In 1943 Ralph and Alice moved back to Vilas and her dad convinced her to come back to Colorado and work at the Vilas Elevator during harvest. In August Paul came to visit and on August 14, he asked her to marry him while sitting on the porch swing at her parents' home in Vilas. They were married in Boise City, Oklahoma, on August 19, 1943, before returning to Kansas. To this union two children were born, Philip and Valarie.

Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents, Ralph and Alice; her husband, Paul, and her 21 year old granddaughter, Jennifer Lynn Bechtle. Living to be 95 she was also preceded in death by many of her close friends and only cousin, Delbert Williams and his wife, Betty. She leaves to remember her and mourn her passing her son Philip (Mildred) Norton, daughter Valarie (Jim) Bechtle, grandson Trevor (Chrissy) Norton, granddaughter Koren (Anthony) Newman, and great-grandchildren; Abygale, Nathan and Isabel Norton and Aspen and Tigh Newman.

Dorothy accepted Christ as her Savior as a young child and would sing at church accompanied by her mother on the piano. We have faith that she is now in heaven and feels amazing love and contentment