Norma C. Babbitt
Norma C. Babbitt, 87, of Fishersville, VA, died on March 27, 2011, at her daughter’s home in Middletown, VA, while under the care of hospice.
Mrs. Babbitt was born in 1923, in Needham, MA, the daughter of the late Kenneth and Gladys Childs. She was a homemaker and a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Waynesboro, VA and was a former elder. She was a volunteer at the Augusta County Library, where she shared her love of reading by reading to children through a community outreach program. She was a graduate of the Catherine Gibbs Secretarial School.
Her husband, Robert Todd Babbitt, whom she married in 1946, in Needham, MA, preceded her in death in 1998.
She is survived by a daughter, Anne Warburton and her husband, John, of Middletown, VA; a son Stephen Babbitt and his wife, Susan, of Whiting, NJ; four grandchildren, Elizabeth Harris, Andrew Warburton, Julie Bell, and Laura Hammerstone and six great-grandchildren. In addition to her parents, her son, Thomas Babbit, and brother, Kenneth Childs, Jr., preceded her in death.
A memorial service will be conducted on Friday at 11:00 AM at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Waynesboro, VA with Reverend Jonathan Lovelady officiating. Interment will be in Massachusetts National Cemetery, Bourne, MA at a later date.
Memorial contributions may be made to Blue Ridge Hospice, 333 West Cork Street, Suite 405, Winchester, VA, 22601 or Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1904 Mount Vernon Street, Waynesboro VA, 22980-2299.
Omps Funeral Home, Amherst Chapel, is handling arrangements.
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