Norma Rae Vradenburgh

3/29/1929-12/17/2022

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Our beloved Mother, Nana, Cousin, Friend Norma Vradenburgh passed peacefully in her sleep at home in Myrtle Beach, SC on Saturday December 17, after 93 beautiful years with us. We have so many wonderful memories of our time with her as we mourn this tremendous loss. 

Norma wasone of the hardest workers anyone has ever known who was devoted to her family and faith forher entire life through her most recent years. She was full of lessons she fondly and often passedto everyone she touched like, “Have patience, and don’t be in such a hurry.” and “Life is all
about new beginnings (Neuba-Ginnings).”
Norma, daughter of Henrietta & Raymond Terry was born in Cornwall, NY in 1929. She wasmarried and truly devoted to her husband Robert Vradenburgh for 57 years living in Middle.Hope before he passed in 2006. They enjoyed boating together while traveling annually withtheir two daughters and extended family to the Thousand Islands in Gananoque, Ontario,Canada.

She was employed by the late Bernice and Louis Colandrea for 47 years to provide for all their household needs, becoming Bernie’s close friend and travel companion later in life. She took such pride in her work with flawless precision, ethics, and great effort. She then became a home healthcare aid for over a decade, often caring for patients older than herself. Norma was a
devoted member of the Middle Hope United Methodist/Episcopal church, Fostertown United Methodist Church, and Bethlehem Presbyterian Church throughout her life. She held various volunteer roles including choir member, bell choir mentor, elder, and beloved children’s sermon leader while acting with her frog, Neuba, singing, and dancing, passing scriptures on to impressionable youth and adults alike. 

Long before she was our Nana, she was a volunteer for multiple local organizations including President Middle Hope Elementary School PTA, fundraiser events for the Middlehope Fire Department.

She loved to play records for her grandchildren and great grandchildren in her home, cook, takeneveryone on orchard outings, and do crafts to keep all occupied and smiling. Her many hobbiesnincluded collecting bells, frogs, and assembling her intricate annual display winter village and nativity scenes. She shared all this with her best friend, her late mother, Henrietta M. Terry (G.G.) who lived in her home for many years and rarely left her side. Their mother daughter relationship was the most special anyone would ever witness. In raising Dachshunds, they became a special part of her heart and family.
Norma is survived by her daughter Deborah and husband John Grillo of Port St. Lucie, FL, Robin and husband Curtis Worden of Myrtle Beach, SC, grandchildren Shea Piekarz, Jacci Grillo-Noto and husband Kris, Bryan Piekarz, Adam Piekarz and wife Jena, great grandchildren Brennan, Jessica, Ethan, Atticus, and Dahlia, great great grandchildren Delilah and Hayden,
Goddaughter Lynn Cosman, cousins Margaret and Susan Satterly as well as many other treasured cousins. She was predeceased by her husband, Robert Vradenburgh, and parents Henrietta and Raymond Terry. Norma had many special family, friends, and neighbors she held dear over the years, too many to list.

Services to follow Spring 2023 where Norma will be laid to rest beside Robert at Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, 1520 NY-94, New Windsor, NY.
Immediate arrangements were entrusted to the Myrtle Beach Funeral Home & Crematory (843) 293-4505, https://www.myrtlebeachfuneralhome.com