Norma Rose Mungenast

Norma Rose Fahey Mungenast, born on November 1, 1925, went to her eternal home on February 22, 2015. She will be remembered by her family and friends as a Godly woman with a servant’s heart who was loved and admired by family and friends and treasured by her 14 children.

Norma was born in East St. Louis, Illinois. She attended St. Joseph’s and graduated from St. Teresa Academy in 1944. When her husband Andy retired from the Air Force after a tour at the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base, they settled in Montgomery Alabama.

Norma exemplified the virtues of Proverbs 31. She was industrious, full of energy, encouraging, kind, and nonjudgmental. She demonstrated unconditional love, forgiveness, perseverance, and integrity. She had a wonderful sense of humor and an infectious laugh. Norma lived out her faith daily. She dealt with the challenges of raising a large family by praying faithfully for them. She also prayed in earnest for seminarians, priests, vocations, the unborn, this country and the military, especially the troops overseas.

Norma taught us how to live graciously with adversity and she taught us how to die with dignity. She was grateful for the outpouring of love following her diagnosis of a brain tumor. Norma lived her ordinary life in an extraordinary way by the demonstration of her deep faith, kindness and quiet strength.

The family of Norma Mungenast wishes to express gratitude to Dr. Norman Taylor, Dr. James Markert, Dr. John Fiveash and Dr. Louis B. Nabors and their staffs, as well as Comfort Care Hospice especially Vicky Anderson and Keterrious Johnson for their care and compassion.

Norma Mungenast is preceded in death by her husband Andrew J. Mungenast, her father Dennis Fahey, her mother Irene St. Germain Bilello, her brothers Robert (Bob) Fahey and Ed (Jack) Fahey, and her sister Mary Jane Poynter. She is survived by her 14 children Andy Jr. (Pat), John (Juli), Jim (Jeanie), Mary Sharon Howell (Cass), Patti Smith (Jerry), Ed (Shirley), Carri (Jim), Rick (Jackie), Sue Holdridge (Rick), Kathy Vickers (Jim), Norma Lemley (Danny), Paul, Nita Overstreet (John), and Mike (Dana), and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, extended family and friends.

Visitation will be at St. Bede Catholic Church 3870 Atlanta Highway Montgomery AL 36109 on February 27, 2015 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. followed by a Vigil service. A Funeral Mass will be conducted at the same location on February 28, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. Norma will be buried alongside her husband, Andy, at Arlington National Cemetery in a private burial service. The family kindly requests in lieu of flowers that donations be made to the scholarship fund established in Norma Mungenast’s memory or to your favorite charity. Donations to the scholarship fund should be made payable to Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School and mailed to the school attn.: Kim Jackson 5350 Vaughn Road Montgomery AL 36116 with a designation to the Norma R. Mungenast Scholarship Fund #1-88002. Condolences may be offered at leak-mc.com. Leak Memory Chapel Directing.