Norma Jean W. Twitchell passed away Oct. 30, 2021 at the age of 73. She was born April 1, 1948 in Marysville, Kansas. Her parents are Donald Raymond and Baina Darlene Cellan Woodyard. When she was very young they moved to Soda Springs, Idaho. There she got all of her schooling.

When she was 9 years old she saved her younger sisters life when she caught on fire, after her sister got to close to a bonfire. Norma Jean grabbed her and rolled her in the dirt, smothering the fire. Nancy was severely burned. At the age of 10 she received her award, on February 13, 1958 when the presentation was made at the regular monthly meeting of the Soda Springs, PTA by Mrs. Jim Tyne, Pocatello program chairman for the Silver Sage Council Of Girls Scouts of America. Norma Jean a member of local Brownie Troop 68 was honored for her heroic action in life saving. Her leaders were Mrs. Horsley and Mrs. Largilliere.

She graduated from Soda Springs high school in 1968, she loved her classmates. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Idaho Falls, Idaho October 25, 1968, while attending Hollywood beauty school. There she graduated and became a licensed beautician.

She married her high school sweetheart Derald Twitchell In Niter, Idaho June 28, 1969. November 7, 1971 their marriage was solemnized in the Salt Lake City, Utah temple for time and all eternity.

She was a good wife and mother to her children and grandchildren. She liked to bake bread, make good pies and cookies and try new recipes. She sewed clothes, made quilts of all kinds, baby quilts, baby clothes, canned our foods, made jams and jellies, knitted, worked in her flower beds and tried to make her yard beautiful. She worked in the harvest every fall and the spring for Glen Sorensen for 22 years and Chad Neibaur until she retired. She looked forward to the work every year. She belonged to the singing mothers in relief society, visiting teacher, young women's, beehive teacher, librarian, nursery leader, cub master assistant, wolf den leader, young women's secretary, served a stake mission with her husband for Soda Springs, Idaho. She sang in the community choir Christmas concert every year, also ward and stake choirs. She was a brownie leader in the community, 4-h leader in cooking and sewing, worked with dogs along with Peggy Strupp. She liked to do scrap booking and crafts.

Together the hosted many exchange students from many countries. They gave and received much.

She is survived by her husband Derald and three children and their spouses. Daughter Donna Jean Twitchell, Pocatello ID, Sons Shane (Brenda) Twitchell Soda Springs, ID and Verlin (Laura) Twitchell Herriman, UT and 7 grandchildren, 1 great-grandchild and 9 step-grandchildren.

She leaves behind two sisters and their spouses, Teresa Whitman Soda Springs, ID, Nancy Brooks Soda Springs, ID.

Her parents Donald and Biana Darlene Cellan Woodyard a sister Renae Spencer and grandparents precede her in death.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, November 10 at 12 noon in the Bailey Creek LDS Ward Chapel.  Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday from 7-8 p.m. at the Sims Funeral Home and Wednesday morning from 10:30-11:30 a.m. at the Church prior to the service.

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