Among other postings, Fr. Gary Norman served multiple parishes in the Columbia Basin, including a 2007-2010 posting at St. Rose of Lima in Ephrata. He worked to serve several communities and enjoyed music, ceramics and camping.
February 7, 2024
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Gary Norman
Jan. 22, 1945 — Jan. 31, 2024
Father Gary Norman, a senior priest of the Diocese of Yakima, who was being treated at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center following an auto accident and subsequent stroke Jan. 22, died Jan. 31, 2024, at the medical center. Diabetes and heart trouble contributed to his death. He was 79 and had been living in Prescott, Ariz., since his retirement in 2014, helping occasionally in the local Catholic parish and preaching in parishes throughout the United States, on behalf of the organization Food for the Poor.