NORMA SHEA LANGWORTHY

Dear Collie, Leslie, Wilson, and K.C.,

I send my sympathies on the death of your amazing mother. My sister Nitie and I babysat for you four (mostly Wilsie and K.C.) at Beach Haven three summers from 1959-1961. We took care of you, cooked, cleaned, shopped (Nitie got to drive the pink Cadillac at age 17), etc., but we never felt like hired help. Your parents, particularly your mom, made us feel like family members. We got to watch some regattas and joined the family on the...

ALAS! High on my 'retirement projects list' was my disire to find Norma and say hello. She hosted me several times in New York and I have a sweet picture of us together that I wanted to send her. If one of you gives me an email address I'll do that. What can one say after that? I just loved Norma, her spirit, laugh and outlandish clothes and am sorry it is too late to tell her that (again).

PS I just saw I could add it.

Don Frey (Institute of Nautical...

Norma was a great lady. I had the pleasure of her company on a number of theatre tours to London when I ran London Arts Discovery Tours. She also invited both myself and my partner to stay with her a number of times in NY and she was both a great hostess and a delight to be with. We will miss her terribly.

Howard Lichterman and Michael Ratcliffe

Dear Leslie, Collie,Wilson, Keith,

Your mom was always generous and kind to me: I shall never forget the lovely surprise of her supplying the flowers for Jean-Francois and my wedding or her regular hospitality in our last year of high school, Leslie. I hope her memory will be a blessing and a consolation for all of you.

Dear Collie, Leslie, Wilson, Keith, and Diane,

A note I simply never thought I would send. I would call Norma and always start with "Helllllllllooooooooooo Norma Langworthy" and she would respond with that amazing laugh and relply "Helllllooooooo David Young" and then we'd be off on a great phone call. There were the shows, the parties, the fund raisers but my fondest and most dear memories were the quieter ones. Whether we were in Iowa eating grease filled corn dogs or at 21...