{"id":160733,"date":"2026-04-08T19:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160733\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:31:10","slug":"fern-norton-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160733\/","title":{"rendered":"Fern Norton \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tFern Norton \t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Fern Norton, 84, of Scranton passed away March 17, 2026 at Elan Rehabilitation Center in Scranton following an illness. She was preceded in death by her husband David Norton.<\/p>\n<p>\nBorn January 1, 1942, she was the daughter of the late Fred and Margaret (Broughton) Bidwell.<\/p>\n<p>\nFern was a devoted mother and wife. She enjoyed playing and watching her son play softball, line dancing, and volunteering with theater groups and the Nay Aug Park Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>\nFern was a long standing member of St. Peter\u2019s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>\nFern\u2019s family would like to thank the staff and residents of Elan Rehabilitation Center, Geisinger Medical Group and Lutherwood for all their love and support.<\/p>\n<p>\nSurviving is her son Allen Norton and wife Heather of Chester, VA; and her grand-kitties Clemson and Nittany.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe was preceded in death by grand-kitty Malibu.<\/p>\n<p>\nA memorial service will be conducted Friday April 10, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. in Duffy &amp; Snowdon Funeral Home 401 Church Street Moscow, PA.<\/p>\n<p>\nFriends will be received on Friday from 1:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the donor\u2019s choice<\/p>\n<p>\nArrangements by Duffy &amp; Snowdon Funeral Home of Moscow, PA.<\/p>\n<p>\nFor online condolences, visit the funeral home website or Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\nFern Norton<\/p>\n<p>\nMarch 17, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fern Norton OBITUARY Fern Norton, 84, of Scranton passed away March 17, 2026 at Elan Rehabilitation Center in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-160733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}