Norma Jane Burden – The Virginian Pilot

Norma Jane Burden

Obituary

Norma Jane Berry Burden, 89 -year -old, from Virginia Beach, went to be with her Lord on February 2, 2025. Jane was born in Houston, Texas on August 27, 1935, on Rev. Ray and Asa Hilin Berry, which are church plants. Jane put his faith in Jesus Christ for salvation at the age of 7, became a church pianist at the age of 8 and helped children’s biblical clubs as a teenager. In those years, she worked hard to win awards from the Bible Memory Association, memorizing much of the Bible, the basis of her life.

She met with her husband Kenneth Dale Dale Burden (1934-2021) while visiting the Baptist Baptist Byble College (Welch) campus in Nashville, Texas. The two married in July 1955. Jane worked and learned resourceful with a growing family while Dale was in the City School and worked pastoring. Personal training and scholarship training for Jane’s evangelization continued to develop its basic principles of teaching.

After several pastorates, the weight (now with 6 children) moved to Norfolk in 1965 for Dale, a preacher of gravity, at Pastor Fairmont Park Free will of the Baptist Church. The couple launched the American Christian School in 1966 after seeing the “winter” of the “winter” daughter instead of a “Christmas” program without mentioning Christ. Jane started a class for teacher training for Sunday school teachers who lacked Bible training. She resumed her official education and graduated in Virginia Weslian 1978. The teachers she has trained are a blessing for many areas while the military is transferring them. When they moved to Virginia Beach, the names of both the church and the school were changed to Gateway to refer to this aspect of their ministry.

Mrs. Burden serves in the capacity of “high and low”: cooking for church dinners, cleaning of buildings, counseling women, playing the organ, developing curricula, presenting Christian biographies and teaching her first grade, training teacher and training The “unwavering ladies” classes until the grandchildren renamed her Mimau and her widow renamed Miss Jane.

It decreases and incapable of driving, but still littered, she would say, “I want to be loyal to my church.” It is loved in many churches because the seeds of its fidelity have spread to many ministries.

Jane was preceded by death by her parents and brother, her husband, a grandson and a great -grandson. She survived from her son Barry (Kim) and daughters the theater Jones (Tim), Teresa Edwards (Rick), Katie Reybling (Ken), Dale Brooks (Eric) and Dona Thomas (Mark). He survives from fifteen grandchildren and 40 great -grandchildren.

The family will receive guests at the funeral home of Graham, 1112 Campsville Road, Chesapik, Monday, February 10 at 6:00 pm. The funeral service will be held at the Baptist Church in Bethani, 2430 Azalea Garden Road, Norfolk, on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, with a view at 9:00 am at 10:00. There will be a commission service in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens. To leave your family condolences, please visit Grahamfuneralhome.com

Instead of flowers, donations can be sent to her memory to:

Child Evangelization Scholarship, 17482

Or the Bethany Free Will Church, 2430 Azalea Garden Rd. Norfolk, VA 23513