Valley News of Lebanon
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On May 24, David Norton died as he lived: without complaint. He went peacefully in his home on Sweetwater Hill in South Strafford, Vermont, surrounded by those who loved him, after deciding to finally stop fighting his crippling rheumatoid arthritis.
Nort was born in March 1950. He grew up in Wallingford, Connecticut, playing hockey, soccer and baseball in high school, coming to Vermont in 1968 to attend Middlebury College where he captained the ice-hockey team and was a member of the Sigma Epsilon fraternity.
At Middlebury Nort met his life-long best friends. They introduced him to the Upper Valley, where he would live for the rest of his life, with intermittent winters in Alta, Utah, and other travel adventures.
Nort had many loves - his friends and family - as well as ice hockey, skiing, cider pressing, and maple sugaring.
He was a carpenter, working on restoration projects of historical buildings in Strafford and many homes throughout the Upper Valley. He sugared for over forty years and played on the Storm Kings Ice Hockey team as well as the Strafford Sultans of Swing softball team.
As an ice hockey coach, he mentored scores of kids, as he would say, "for the love of it" from 1986-1990 for the Hanover boys Bantam Hockey team, then the Hanover High School girls hockey team from 1990-1999. Over the next decade, Nort coached myriad youth hockey squads instilling his love of the game to many Upper Valley children.
Nort is survived by his wife, son, step-daughter, his brother and sister and their families, as well as four 'Close Enough' brothers. A celebration of life will be held at a later date. Donations in memory of Nort may be made to the Upper Valley Land Trust, Hanover, NH 03755, https://uvlt.org
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