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CONDOLENCES



Norman Henry Suhr left his earthly family and friends to join his Heavenly Father on Monday, April 27, 2026. He was born November 6, 1928 and raised on a farm in Oakdale, Nebraska. He was an ordained Lutheran Minister with assignments that took him to Texas and Louisiana after serving congregations in Nebraska.

He retired from the ministry and returned to Texas to teach high school History and German, and worked a small farm in Kempner, with livestock and feed crops.

He left Texas for Boston Township in 2005 to live with his daughter Mary (Tori) Mraz and her husband, Michael, with whom he has lived for the past 21 years. As a self-taught seamster, he made his own clothes and quilted. He taught quilting with the Viking team at JOANN Fabrics in Hudson, and over the years made over 500 quilts, many of them lap quilts for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy at the Cleveland Clinic.

Known as both Norman and as Hank, he was a quiet, caring man with a thirst for knowledge and a generous spirit. He was with his daughter, his grandchildren when he passed peacefully into God`s hands.