David Carl Norris passed away on 1 April 2023 in Soda Springs, Idaho at the age of 72.

He was born on 4 June 1950 in Logan, Utah, to Carl LaSelle Norris and Barbara Sutton Norris of Laketown, Utah.  He spent his first two years in Laketown, and then the family moved to Soda Springs, Idaho, where Carl had a job with Monsanto as a Master Welder.  He early learned gymnastics and dance and often did routines with his older sister, Ann.  He went to school in Soda Springs and was the High Schools one, and only, three-time state wrestling champion.  He went to Rick's College for two years on a wrestling scholarship, and handicap scholarship.  When he was seventeen he had one of the early cornea transplants to give him sight back to his right eye.  He went on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after his two years at Rick's.  His mission was to Australia and he was able to get to know the people there and learned to love them.

After returning home from his mission in 1972, he was drafted, and rather than have to go involuntarily, he volunteered and went in as a Combat Medic.  He went to California for basic training and then onto a tour at Fort Meade, Maryland.  It was in Maryland that he met Carol Ann Wilson at a Young adults meeting a month after she had been baptized.  This was 10 May 1973 and on 1 November 1973 they were married in the Relief Society room of the Hooper Church in Soda Springs, Idaho.  From there they went back to Maryland to prepare for David's tour in Korea.  He left for Korea on 17 December 1973 and Carol Ann joined him on 14 February 1974.  They lived together in Wonju, Korea, near Camp Long until he sent her home in September 1974 and then he completed his tour and joined her again in Soda Springs in December of that year.  They went onto their next duty station at Colorado Springs, Colorado, where their first son, James, was born 30 September 1975.  On 13 August 1976 they were able to go as a family to the Logan Temple and be sealed for All time and eternity.

They then went to The Presidio of San Francisco, California, for nursing school paid for by the Army.  At this time their second son, Christopher, was born 7 May 1977.  David graduated as an LPN later that year, and they then were transferred to Fort Riley, Kansas, where they would remain until August of 1988 when David would be transferred to Bad Kreuznach, Germany.  Their third son, Paul, was only a year old when they had to move again.

They would spend almost four years in Germany.  While there they were very active in the small military branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  In this branch, he and his wife were branch mission leaders.  They were able to bring into the church their best friend and many others.  In December of 1990 he left his family in Germany while the Army sent him to participate in Desert Storm, the first Gulf War.  He was the Chief Ward Master for a Combat Surgical Hospital.  He then returned to Germany and his family in 1991, six months after he left.

After Desert Storm, while still in Germany, their son, Christopher, had a grand mal seizure and was taken to the Germany hospital in BK.  After a Week in the hospital it was determined that he had a malformation in the occipital lobe of the brain and he was shipped to the Army base at Landstuhl, Germany.  From there David and Christopher flew back to the States to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for more tests.  After returning back to Germany he was then transferred back to the states to Fort Bragg at Fayetteville, North Carolina.  He was the Chief Ward Master for Womak Army Medical Center on Fort Bragg.

In August of 1992 he took Christopher back to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for brain surgery.  A surgery that was only supposed to take 10 hours turned into 20.  Christopher was put into a drug induced coma, which he never came out of and was pronounced dead on 3 August 1992.  The army shipped him to Evanston, Wyoming, to the funeral home and then he was interred in the family plot in Randolph, Wyoming.

Fort Bragg would be his final duty station for the Army.  They left for Soda Springs, Idaho, and arrived there on 30 June 1994.  He started work at Caribou Memorial Hospital 1 July 1994.  He was honorable released from the Army in September of 1994.  James graduated from Soda Springs High School, his fourth school in four years in 1995.

While living in Soda Springs, their son Paul had an accident which damaged a kidney which he lost a few years later.  They were able to experience the joys and drawbacks of having a foreign exchange student.  We thoroughly enjoyed being able to house someone from Korea, Paul's Junior Year.  Paul graduated from high school in 2005.  David took an online RN course from Excelsior and graduated with flying colors.  He then became an RN at Caribou Memorial Hospital.

He retired three times in his life.  Once from the Army, once for Social Security, and finally from the Hospital on 2 January 2022.  He was enjoying retirement and helping others.  He was helping to clear snow from the porch roof at Paul's house when it collapsed, killing him.

He is survived by his wife, Carol Ann, his eldest son, James, (Angela), his youngest son, Paul (Tara), one grandson, Corbin and two granddaughters, Audry and Shayna, his sister Ann Bedingfield (KC) and brother Jeff (Cindy).  He is preceded in death by his son, Christopher, his parents, Carl and Barbara, his older brother, Mike, and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.

His interests were his family, his church, and helping others.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, April 6, 2023 at the Soda Springs LDS Stake Center at 11:00 am.  The family will meet with friends on Wednesday evening at Sims Funeral Home from 6-7 and on Thursday from 9:30-10:30 at the church prior to services.  Interment will be held at the Randolph, Utah Cemetery.