3rd of 5 children of CLARK SAMUEL CHATFIELD, JR. & MADGE ROSA
Died: age 81; complications from leg ulcer
Occupation: Public Health Department eligibility worker in San Mateo Co., California
Avocation: Poet (Haiku), music, artist: oil painting, watercolors, sculptress
Married: 1941/42, KENNETH GORDON FORCIER, Berkeley, Alameda Co., CA
Two children
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The Essence of My Soul: Impressions in Haiku, published Dec 15, 2001
Amazon Editorial Review
About the Author
Denial of nature and her intrinsic timeless beauty can be a catalyst, once granted, to an explosive outpouring of, thought, observation, and discovery. So it was for Norma Chatfield Forcier. Norma, born and raised in the central California town of Williams, was thought of by her family as sweet, but slow. At the age of 10, her fourth-grade teacher, on a hunch, took her to an ophthalmologist for an examination. Two weeks later, she was fitted with bottle bottom thick lenses. "What happened next," recalled Norma, "was nothing short of a miracle. The muddled gray visual images in an instant became crystal clear in form, detail, and unity of recognition. For the first time in my life, I saw clearly the beauty of a human face! The long ride home was overwhelming!" Her family quickly discovered she was anything but slow! Graduating from Williams High School, she attended University of California at Berkeley, majoring in Decorative Art. There she met and married Kenneth Forcier, who, after serving in the Air Force in WWII, returned to help raise two children. Her inexhaustible search for new and varying vehicles of expression for her extraordinary talents have led her to an impressive and diverse list of accomplishments. Music, short stories, poetry, Haiku, oil painting, watercolors, sumi-e, sculpture, all of these have been explored in depth as Norma continued her ceaseless quest for self-expression. Now 80 years old, Norma lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by her artwork, her extensive collection of Asian art, and reams of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren's art. She spends her days, and some nights, writing poetry, and Haiku.
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FORCIER NORMA Born in Williams, California August 28, 1921, died in San Mateo, March 12, 2003. Beloved wife of the late Kenneth Gordon Forcier and devoted mother. Norma was the author of Essence of My Soul, a volume of haiku, a sculptor, and artist whose work is in several California collections. She is survived by her sisters, Lola Fabris of Berkeley, Aura Edwards of Lafayette, her brother Clark Samuel Chatfield III of Sacramento, and four grandchildren. Friends and family are invited to attend a celebration of her life on Thursday, March 20th, 2003, 11:30 am until 2:30 pm at 527 Chesterton Ave., Belmont. Contributions in her memory may be made to The California State Parks Foundation. Arrangements by Wyant & Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory in Sunnyvale.
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Alameda Times-Star 3/18/03
Died: age 81; complications from leg ulcer
Occupation: Public Health Department eligibility worker in San Mateo Co., California
Avocation: Poet (Haiku), music, artist: oil painting, watercolors, sculptress
Married: 1941/42, KENNETH GORDON FORCIER, Berkeley, Alameda Co., CA
Two children
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The Essence of My Soul: Impressions in Haiku, published Dec 15, 2001
Amazon Editorial Review
About the Author
Denial of nature and her intrinsic timeless beauty can be a catalyst, once granted, to an explosive outpouring of, thought, observation, and discovery. So it was for Norma Chatfield Forcier. Norma, born and raised in the central California town of Williams, was thought of by her family as sweet, but slow. At the age of 10, her fourth-grade teacher, on a hunch, took her to an ophthalmologist for an examination. Two weeks later, she was fitted with bottle bottom thick lenses. "What happened next," recalled Norma, "was nothing short of a miracle. The muddled gray visual images in an instant became crystal clear in form, detail, and unity of recognition. For the first time in my life, I saw clearly the beauty of a human face! The long ride home was overwhelming!" Her family quickly discovered she was anything but slow! Graduating from Williams High School, she attended University of California at Berkeley, majoring in Decorative Art. There she met and married Kenneth Forcier, who, after serving in the Air Force in WWII, returned to help raise two children. Her inexhaustible search for new and varying vehicles of expression for her extraordinary talents have led her to an impressive and diverse list of accomplishments. Music, short stories, poetry, Haiku, oil painting, watercolors, sumi-e, sculpture, all of these have been explored in depth as Norma continued her ceaseless quest for self-expression. Now 80 years old, Norma lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by her artwork, her extensive collection of Asian art, and reams of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren's art. She spends her days, and some nights, writing poetry, and Haiku.
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FORCIER NORMA Born in Williams, California August 28, 1921, died in San Mateo, March 12, 2003. Beloved wife of the late Kenneth Gordon Forcier and devoted mother. Norma was the author of Essence of My Soul, a volume of haiku, a sculptor, and artist whose work is in several California collections. She is survived by her sisters, Lola Fabris of Berkeley, Aura Edwards of Lafayette, her brother Clark Samuel Chatfield III of Sacramento, and four grandchildren. Friends and family are invited to attend a celebration of her life on Thursday, March 20th, 2003, 11:30 am until 2:30 pm at 527 Chesterton Ave., Belmont. Contributions in her memory may be made to The California State Parks Foundation. Arrangements by Wyant & Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory in Sunnyvale.
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Alameda Times-Star 3/18/03
3rd of 5 children of CLARK SAMUEL CHATFIELD, JR. & MADGE ROSA
Died: age 81; complications from leg ulcer
Occupation: Public Health Department eligibility worker in San Mateo Co., California
Avocation: Poet (Haiku), music, artist: oil painting, watercolors, sculptress
Married: 1941/42, KENNETH GORDON FORCIER, Berkeley, Alameda Co., CA
Two children
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The Essence of My Soul: Impressions in Haiku, published Dec 15, 2001
Amazon Editorial Review
About the Author
Denial of nature and her intrinsic timeless beauty can be a catalyst, once granted, to an explosive outpouring of, thought, observation, and discovery. So it was for Norma Chatfield Forcier. Norma, born and raised in the central California town of Williams, was thought of by her family as sweet, but slow. At the age of 10, her fourth-grade teacher, on a hunch, took her to an ophthalmologist for an examination. Two weeks later, she was fitted with bottle bottom thick lenses. "What happened next," recalled Norma, "was nothing short of a miracle. The muddled gray visual images in an instant became crystal clear in form, detail, and unity of recognition. For the first time in my life, I saw clearly the beauty of a human face! The long ride home was overwhelming!" Her family quickly discovered she was anything but slow! Graduating from Williams High School, she attended University of California at Berkeley, majoring in Decorative Art. There she met and married Kenneth Forcier, who, after serving in the Air Force in WWII, returned to help raise two children. Her inexhaustible search for new and varying vehicles of expression for her extraordinary talents have led her to an impressive and diverse list of accomplishments. Music, short stories, poetry, Haiku, oil painting, watercolors, sumi-e, sculpture, all of these have been explored in depth as Norma continued her ceaseless quest for self-expression. Now 80 years old, Norma lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by her artwork, her extensive collection of Asian art, and reams of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren's art. She spends her days, and some nights, writing poetry, and Haiku.
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FORCIER NORMA Born in Williams, California August 28, 1921, died in San Mateo, March 12, 2003. Beloved wife of the late Kenneth Gordon Forcier and devoted mother. Norma was the author of Essence of My Soul, a volume of haiku, a sculptor, and artist whose work is in several California collections. She is survived by her sisters, Lola Fabris of Berkeley, Aura Edwards of Lafayette, her brother Clark Samuel Chatfield III of Sacramento, and four grandchildren. Friends and family are invited to attend a celebration of her life on Thursday, March 20th, 2003, 11:30 am until 2:30 pm at 527 Chesterton Ave., Belmont. Contributions in her memory may be made to The California State Parks Foundation. Arrangements by Wyant & Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory in Sunnyvale.
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Alameda Times-Star 3/18/03
Died: age 81; complications from leg ulcer
Occupation: Public Health Department eligibility worker in San Mateo Co., California
Avocation: Poet (Haiku), music, artist: oil painting, watercolors, sculptress
Married: 1941/42, KENNETH GORDON FORCIER, Berkeley, Alameda Co., CA
Two children
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The Essence of My Soul: Impressions in Haiku, published Dec 15, 2001
Amazon Editorial Review
About the Author
Denial of nature and her intrinsic timeless beauty can be a catalyst, once granted, to an explosive outpouring of, thought, observation, and discovery. So it was for Norma Chatfield Forcier. Norma, born and raised in the central California town of Williams, was thought of by her family as sweet, but slow. At the age of 10, her fourth-grade teacher, on a hunch, took her to an ophthalmologist for an examination. Two weeks later, she was fitted with bottle bottom thick lenses. "What happened next," recalled Norma, "was nothing short of a miracle. The muddled gray visual images in an instant became crystal clear in form, detail, and unity of recognition. For the first time in my life, I saw clearly the beauty of a human face! The long ride home was overwhelming!" Her family quickly discovered she was anything but slow! Graduating from Williams High School, she attended University of California at Berkeley, majoring in Decorative Art. There she met and married Kenneth Forcier, who, after serving in the Air Force in WWII, returned to help raise two children. Her inexhaustible search for new and varying vehicles of expression for her extraordinary talents have led her to an impressive and diverse list of accomplishments. Music, short stories, poetry, Haiku, oil painting, watercolors, sumi-e, sculpture, all of these have been explored in depth as Norma continued her ceaseless quest for self-expression. Now 80 years old, Norma lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by her artwork, her extensive collection of Asian art, and reams of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren's art. She spends her days, and some nights, writing poetry, and Haiku.
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FORCIER NORMA Born in Williams, California August 28, 1921, died in San Mateo, March 12, 2003. Beloved wife of the late Kenneth Gordon Forcier and devoted mother. Norma was the author of Essence of My Soul, a volume of haiku, a sculptor, and artist whose work is in several California collections. She is survived by her sisters, Lola Fabris of Berkeley, Aura Edwards of Lafayette, her brother Clark Samuel Chatfield III of Sacramento, and four grandchildren. Friends and family are invited to attend a celebration of her life on Thursday, March 20th, 2003, 11:30 am until 2:30 pm at 527 Chesterton Ave., Belmont. Contributions in her memory may be made to The California State Parks Foundation. Arrangements by Wyant & Smith Funeral Homes & Crematory in Sunnyvale.
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Alameda Times-Star 3/18/03
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