Norma Lee Brinsfield

BROOKLYN PARK - Norma Lee Brinsfield, 72, passed away at University of Maryland Cancer Center in Baltimore on Monday, Feb. 12, 2007.

She was born in Cambridge, on Sept. 6, 1934, the daughter of the late Emerson Carroll Brinsfield and Lola Payne Brinsfield.

She graduated from Hurlock High School, class of 1952. She continued her education acquiring her B.S. degree from Towson State in 1963, and received a master's degree from University of Maryland in 1971.

Ms. Brinsfield spent her entire teaching career at George Fox Jr. Middle School from 1967 to l992, when she retired. Her expertise was teaching Special Education.

She attended the Brooklyn United Methodist Church in Brooklyn where she became a certified Lay Speaker, attended Monday Prayer Group, participated in Bible Study, occasionally delivered sermons, directed the choir and sometimes substituted as organist. She was a member of the Anne Arundel Retired Teachers Chorus where she sang alto. She was also a member of the Arundel Singers.

Ms. Brinsfield is survived by her cousins, James Payne of Rhodesdale, Hester Marquardt of Cokesbury and Charlotte Anne Nickerson of Choptank and several other cousins. She is also survived by close friends, Roz Suit, Shirley Garland, and Jeanne Blake in addition to several other close friends and her church family.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., on Monday, at Brookview United Methodist Church with Pastor Jim McMahan officiating. Burial will follow at Brookview Cemetery. Friends may call at the church one hour prior to the service.

A memorial service will be held in the near future at Brooklyn United Methodist Church in Brooklyn.

Serving as pallbearers will be Kenneth Brinsfield, Dave Lankford, Bobby Lankford, Edgar Lankford, James Payne Sr. and Charles E. Payne.

Memorial contributions can be made to Kennedy Krieger Institute: 707 N. Broadway, Baltimore, Md. 21205

Arrangements are by the Framptom Funeral Home in Federalsburg.