The Newport Plain Talk

Louis Edward “Sonny Boy” Norwood

May 4, 2008

Louis Edward “Sonny Boy” Norwood, age 70, of Del Rio, passed away Sunday, May 4, 2008, at Baptist Hospital of East Tennessee in Knoxville.

He was a faithful member of Maple Grove Missionary Baptist Church where he served as a deacon. He continued with the church’s radio and nursing home ministries until his health would no longer permit him to do so.

He was preceded in death by his son, Lewis Eugene Norwood; parents, Edward and Dussie Norwood; sisters, Hessie Messer and Joanne Norwood; brother, Larry Norwood.

He is survived by his wife of fifty years, Rose Norwood; children, Billy and B.J. Norwood, of Del Rio; Glenda Norwood and Gail Dunn, Lisa and Roy Shropshire, all of Parrottsville; grandchildren, Stacie Norwood, Justin Shropshire, Dylin Shropshire, Mandi Crum, and Chris Crum and wife Ashley; great-granddaughter, Mayce Hall.

Sisters, Louise Greene, of Dandridge, and Bonnie Turner, of Newport; sister and brother-in-law, Clara Mae and Fain Mottern, of Sevierville; brothers and sisters-in-law, Bobby and Diane Norwood, Harold and Judy Norwood, of Dandridge; Clyde and Dorise Norwood, of Sevierville; John A. and Mary Norwood, Clayton and Claudia Norwood, of Newport; also several nieces and nephews.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 9 p.m., May 6, 2008, at Brown Funeral Home.

Funeral service will be at 2 p.m., Wednesday, May 7, 2008, at Brown Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Wayne Haney and the Rev. Billy Sutton officiating.

Family and friends may sign the registry online at www.newportfunerals.com.

Brown Funeral Home in charge.