Norma Widner

Norma Jean Widner

Funeral services for Mrs. Norma Widner will be held 1 p.m. Saturday, September 18, 2021, in the chapel of Replogle-Lawrence Funeral Home with Carroll Taylor, Steven Clenney, and Mark Widner officiating. Burial will follow in Gibson County Memory Gardens. Visitation with the family will be held Saturday from 11 a.m. until service time at the funeral home.

Mrs. Widner, 78, passed away Monday, September 13, 2021, at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital.

She was born in East St. Louis, IL to the late Edward Phelps and Katie Johnson Phelps. Mrs. Widner was a member of New Life United Pentecostal Church in Milan.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband of 57 years, Ferdie Eugene “Gene” Widner; brothers, Earl Phelps, James Phelps, Edward Phelps; sisters, Beaulah James, Joyce Schwarzkopf.

Mrs. Norma is survived by her children, Kenneth Widner and wife Vilma, Glenn Widner and wife Dawn, Mark Widner, Melonie Taylor and husband Devin; brother, Hilton Ray Phelps and wife Kathleen; sister, Joann Lewis and husband Don; nine grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren.