Norma Jean (Klatt) Wood was born  on January 4, 1938 in Monroe, Michigan as the seventh child of Elsie (Heiden) and Otto Klatt.

After graduating from Monroe High School, she married Benjamin E. Wood of Temperance, Michigan on July 21, 1956 at St John the Baptist Catholic Church. Ben was born July 8, 1935.  They had five children.

In 2000, Norma retired after over 28 years with the Howard Ternes Company.

Norma died on Thursday, November 10, 2016 in Ohio at the age of 78 in the Hospice of Northwest Ohio in Toledo. Ben passed away on September 23, 2010 in the Erie-West Hospice. A daughter, Jean Marie Stinson, preceded them in death.

At the time of Norma's death, they had 25 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.
 

 
Elsie (45) and Otto (49) were living at 1020 Harrison Street in Monroe. Also living there were there children, Ervin (23), Harold (21), Kenneth, Sr. (18), Marilyn (13), Norma Jean (12), Robert (9), Linda (5) and Richard (2). Their son, Donald (24) and his wife, Margaret (19) were also in the house.