Bunnell, Norma Koster

Mrs. Norma Bunnell passed away Sunday, March 8, 2020. She was born in Patterson, New Jersey on February 10, 1923 to Mildred Schadt Koster and Ernest Koster. George Rice Bunnell, her husband, was born January 14, 1924 and passed away July 23, 1999. Her brother Richard A. Koster and her sister-in-law Barbara G. Bunnell Koster both predeceased her.

She is survived by her children: daughter Eugenie Elizabeth Hamilton and son-in-law David, grandchildren Jeffrey Hunt Hamilton (married to Kerri Martin Hamilton) and Adam George Hamilton, daughter Valerie Ann Bunnell and son-in-law Hal Marshall, grandchild Sophia Jean Marshall, and daughter Amy Louise Bunnell LaCon, son-in-law Vincent LaCon and grandchildren Christopher George LaCon, Genevieve Frances LaCon, Alexander Vincent LaCon, and Quinn Patrick LaCon.

Mrs Bunnell studied Illustration and graduated from Pratt Art Institute in Brooklyn NY in 1943 during WWII. She worked in commercial art and as a magazine art director in Manhattan for 8 years. She married in 1951 and become a devoted mother to three daughters.

She had keen interests in art and pursued watercolor painting. She brought a lively perspective to many visual arts including antique collecting, architecture and gardening. She was a student of Americana and history of 19th and 20th century. She and George enjoyed many historical sites and museums in New York and New England. In the 1970s she collected and recreated an historically accurate country store with items in use between 1850 and 1860. She was an avid reader, including the New York Times for 60 years. Her enthusiasm for learning was exceptional and contagious.

We are deeply appreciative to the staff of Kroontje Healthcare Center and Good Samaritan Hospice for the wonderful care they have given Mrs. Bunnell since May 2014.

In lieu of flowers the family invites contributions in Memory of Norma Koster Bunnell to Pratt Institute, Brooklyn , NY. To make a gift by phone please call Jess Regis at 718.687.5929. To make a gift online please go to www.pratt.edu/-giving/waystogive/

The family invites friends to visit from 1-3:00 pm Saturday, March 14, 2020 at McCoy Funeral Home 150 Country Club Dr. SW, Blacksburg. A family private interment will follow.