{"id":51399,"date":"2026-03-18T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=51399"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:52:13","slug":"donald-don-orville-norris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=51399","title":{"rendered":"Donald \u201cDon\u201d Orville Norris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Donald \u201cDon\u201d Orville Norris, 93, died March 5, 2026. A Michigan native, he was born on Feb. 24, 1933. He was a master electrician and worked with United Steel &amp; Wire. Don was a Korean War veteran, and served in the U.S. Army. He was an active member of the local VFW Post 9225. He was very close to his daughter Shelley, and they enjoyed many fishing trips together. Don moved to Perry in February 2016. He is survived by: his wife of 10 years, Joan; four children, Jerry Norris, Steven Norris, Julie (Gary) Brehm and Shelley (Lewis) Bolton; 13 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his brothers, Ralph, Bob, Dick and Shirley. A Celebration of Life service is planned at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald \u201cDon\u201d Orville Norris, 93, died March 5, 2026. A Michigan native, he was born on Feb. 24, 1933. He was a master electrician and worked with United Steel &amp; Wire. Don was a Korean War veteran, and served in the U.S. Army. He was an active member of the local VFW Post 9225. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51400,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51399\/revisions\/51400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}