Norma Jean Maw

Our dear mother, Norma Jean Maw passed away peacefully on December 4, 2021 at her home, surrounded by her family. Norma Jean was born December 7, 1926 in Ogden, Utah to Glen S. Folkman and Pauline Matthews. When she was 4 years old her mother passed away from brain cancer. At that time, Norma Jean, her father and younger sister moved in with her grandmother on the family farm in Warren, Utah. She spent her childhood working on the farm. Norma Jean remembers herding cows from the pasture to the milk barn and back every morning and night. She worked alongside her father in the fields where they raised hay, sugar beets and potatoes.

Norma Jean attended the first six grades in Warren, then Junior High in Plain City and graduated from Weber High School in 1945.

Norma Jean married her junior high sweetheart, Roy John Maw in the Salt Lake Temple on May 10, 1946. They have lived their entire married life in Plain City. They were married over 70 years.

Norma Jean retired as a teacher’s aide from Weber County School District. Her church callings included Relief Society President, Primary President, MIA Secretary and teacher in each of those organizations. Her hobbies included tatting, knitting, crocheting and pencil puzzles. Norma was blessed with a wonderful family who were so good to her.

Norma is survived by her children; Dan (Uraina) Maw, Joel (Dawn) Maw, and Karen (Martin) Denney. They have 14 grandchildren and 40 great-grandchildren. Also surviving are her sisters Ann Meibos and Kay (Alan) Heslop, sisters-in-law LaRena Folkman and Karole Crompton.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her step-mother Bernice Folkman, her sweetheart Johnnie, daughter Cindy Maw, brothers Jon Hal Folkman, Lee Glen Folkman, sister Carol Greer and brother-in-law Gary Meibos.

Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 11, 2021, at the Plain City 2nd Ward, 2952 N 4200 W in Plain City. A viewing will be held at the church on prior to the services from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Service will be live streamed and available to watch her on Norma Jean's obituary page. 

Interment will be in the Plain City Cemetery.

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