Jeanette Norton Tyson

Jeanette Norton Tyson

April 27, 1927 – August 16, 2013

Jeanette Norton Tyson, 86, of Oriental, passed away Friday.  Funeral services will be conducted 10 a.m. Monday at Oriental First Baptist Church, Oriental.  Interment will be held at 3:30 p.m. Monday in Evergreen Memorial Park, Wilson. Dr. Jerry Harper will officiate.   Jeanette was the beloved wife of H. Bruce Tyson Sr. for more than 60 years.  She adored him and loved her children and grandchildren more than words can say.  She was an active member in the church and loved the choir.  She always said she got a blessing from their music and how it really touched her.  Jeanette was a charter member of the Wilson Shrinettes and member of Shrinettes in Pamlico.   She had two sons, Hal Bruce Tyson Jr. and wife, Barbara Albert of Spartanburg, S.C. and William Dennis Tyson Sr. and wife, Andrea Allen of Wilkesboro; two grandsons, William Dennis Tyson Jr. and wife, Stephanie Wallace, and Aaron Worden Tyson; two great-grandsons, William Dennis Tyson III and Landen Jack Tyson and one sister, Joyce Norton Hinton of Wilson.   She was preceded in death by her parents; six sisters and three brothers.   Flowers are welcome or memorials may be directed to the Masonic Home for Children at Oxford, 600 College Street, Oxford, NC  27565 or to the Sudan Shriners Hospitals for Children, 403 East Front Street, New Bern, NC  28560-4916.  

Condolences may be directed to www.joyners.net.