“It is with heavy heart that we announce the passing of our father,” announced the children of Norman Stine.
Mr. Stine died in Grants Pass, Ore., on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. He was born near Oroville, Calif., on Dec. 13, 1936.
Norm was driven in life and stayed busy from the time he was young. He dropped out of high school to pursue the promise of gainful employment but went back a couple of years later and finished graduating from Ukiah High in 1958.
Motivated by the desire to make a better life for himself and his family, he held many occupations, including factory work in Ukiah, service station management in San Francisco (back in the day when gas stations still performed service), and partnering in a lamp factory business in both San Francisco and Santa Rosa. He was also a carpenter, general contractor and a rental property owner.
Not one to give up on relationships, he married four times. He has a total of seven kids he’s looked after from his marriages: Connie, David, Doug, George, Don, RJ and Patrick.
Living the “Brady Bunch” life did not affect his affection for any of his kids, as he was always willing to share knowledge and wisdom from his own life experiences, as well as occasional discipline for some of us “boys” in our younger years.
Mr. Stine enjoyed being with family when he could and driving hobby stock race cars. He owned three different cars through the course of his middle years which he liked to take out on the weekends to the local dirt tracks.
He is survived by all his children and two of his four ex-wives. He also leaves more than a dozen grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
A private celebration of life is planned in February of 2022. Please contact David Stine before the end of January if you are interested in attending: 530-228-2610.
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