Norma Eulalie Wimberly

Norma Eulalie Wimberly passed away peacefully on Sept. 4, 2023 after a series of health challenges. She was 81 years old. She was a daughter, sister, wife and mother—a lifelong learner and lover of reading and an inspiration to friends and family.

Norma was born June 9, 1942 in Greenville, South Carolina. The eldest of three children, her family eventually moved to Jackson, Tennessee. She graduated from Jackson High School (where her mother was her English teacher) and attended Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin. She transferred to Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis) where she met and married Robert Gaskill. After graduation, Bob and Norma moved to Tavares, Florida, where they had their first son, John.

The young family moved several times early on, living in Danville, Kentucky and Manchester and Tullahoma in Tennessee before moving to Nashville, where their second son, Christopher, was born. Bob’s work moved him and the family briefly to Appomattox, Virginia, where Norma taught English at the local high school. The family settled once again in Nashville, where both John and Chris graduated from high school.

Active in the PTA where her sons attended high school, she was a public-school advocate and ran one unsuccessful campaign for a seat on the Metro Nashville School Board. She also was appointed to serve on the Nashville Airport Authority.

When her boys were older, Norma took a job with a meeting and convention planning company.

She later went to work for the Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church, where she served as Director of Stewardship. In her time there she combined a passion for giving back with her love of writing and teaching, creating stewardship curricula for pastors and congregations.

Bob and Norma divorced in 1987 and Norma went on to marry songwriter and Methodist Pastor Lee Domann. The couple lived in Nashville off and on for years, moving periodically to Kansas, New Mexico and South Carolina.

Norma began a recovery journey through Alcoholics Anonymous in 1987. She found strength, courage and spiritual support from AA and the friends and supporters she met there. Her dedication to recovery was a key source of her happiness in adult life, and an inspiration to her AA friends.

She loved her sons and her immediate family and her grandchildren, her recovery friends, her books and her dogs.

Norma was preceded in death by her parents John and Vivian Wimberly, her brother John Wimberly and her grandson Sam Gaskill.

She is survived by her sons John and Chris Gaskill, her sister, Sally Wimberly, her granddaughter Abigail Gaskill and grandson Alexander Gaskill.

Gathering of Family and Friends will be Saturday, October 28, 2023 at Brentwood-Roesch-Patton Funeral Home from 10:00 AM until 11:00 AM. Following, a Celebration of Life will take place at 11:00 AM .

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.Brentwood-Roesch-PattonFuneralHome.com for the Wimberly family.