- Date Of Birth: March 22, 1927
- Date Of Death: June 7, 2022
- State: Idaho
Norma Ethel Goransson Wennstrom, 95, a longtime resident of Gooding, passed away on Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at Stonebridge Assisted Living in Hagerman.
Norma met Robert Wennstrom outside the Indian Motorcycle Factory where she inspected bomb fuses during W.W. II. They were married on June 3, 1945.
After the war they moved back to Gooding where they started a dry-cleaning business and raised their four boys – Keith, Karl, Kent and Kim. Bob cleaned and pressed the clothes and Norma did the alterations. They sold the business in the early 1980’s. Bob preceded her in death on August 19, 1981.
Norma later ran an art and frame shop.
Her son Karl, living in Boise, is her only son still living of her four boys. She is also survived by her brother – Douglas George Goransson of Jupiter, Florida; her niece – Barbara Goransson Eurich of Jupiter, Florida; her nephew – William Douglas Goransson of Clover, South Carolina; her niece – JoAnne Pahwul of Sag Harbor, New York; nephews Dick (Martha) Simonton of Riverbank, California and Larry (Rose) Simonton of Twin Falls, ID also Frank Wennstrom and John Wennstrom of Boise, ID and niece Janie (Vic) Wennstrom-Clapp of Meridian, ID and Charlene Doshas of Hendersonville, North Carolina.
She was preceded in death by: her husband – Bob Wennstrom; her three sons – Kim, Kent, and Keith Wennstrom; brother – Oscar Ferdinand Goransson Jr.; sister – Doris Inga Goransson Morris; sister – Vivian Goransson Rainikainen; and granddaughter – Jill Wennstrom.
