Norah Margaret Crowther
1915 - 2011 (95 years)
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Name Norah Margaret Crowther Birth 29 Sep 1915 Ngqeleni,Transkei,South Africa., 
Gender Female Death 11 Apr 2011 Port Sheptone,KwaZulu-Natal,South Africa Person ID I422 My Genealogy Last Modified 30 Apr 2026 | Edit
Father Lancelot "Lance" Dixon Crowther, b. Abt 1884, Bramshott,Hampshire,England., d. Abt 1963, ,,South Africa., (Age 79 years) Mother Mary Tasker Lundie, b. 10 May 1883 d. 15 Nov 1964, Queenstown,Cape,South Africa., (Age 81 years) Marriage 14 Apr 1914 Family ID F138 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Sidney Stanley Stone, b. Abt 1912, Langkloof,Cape,South Africa., d. 20 Feb 1980, Port Shepstone,Natal,,South Africa. (Age 68 years) Marriage 12 Dec 1941 Children 1. Yvonne Ann Stone, b. 24 Aug 1946, ,,South Africa., (Age 79 years)2. Sheila Margaret Stone, b. 9 Oct 1948, Kokstad,East Griqualand,Cape,South Africa., (Age 77 years)3. Pauline Elizabeth Stone, b. 9 Aug 1953, ,,South Africa., (Age 72 years)4. Wendy Jean Stone, b. 21 Apr 1957, ,,South Africa., (Age 69 years)Family ID F139 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Aug 2025 | Edit
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Nora Margaret Crowther
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Notes - PRIVATE
- Teacher, B.A. Taught at Emfundisweni from 1939-1951
Source: Andrew O Thompson's Genealogy
Taught in Kokstad circa 1963-69 [Soaurce: Pat Hagen nee Thompson
Norah was born in 1913, attended the Kaffarian High School for Girls and Rhodes University obtaining a BSc in Botany and Zoology; taught at Umfundisweni School in the Transkei from 1936-57 and married Sidney Stone in December 1941.
Source:«u» Notes on the Lundie & Auld Families
«/u»compiled in 1989 by Jack Wakefield from Mary Crowther's records on the family in Scotland and information from Norah Stone, Frances Smith, Carol Pemberton, Anne Wakefield and David Lundie.
49 Syd & Norah Stone Ngqeleni 12th Dec 1941a.jpg
Taught in Kokstad circa 1963-69
Hi Veronica
Thank you for the contact details.
Auntie Nora was a wonderful person and a great teacher.
I remember her teaching me in high school. We didn't have a biology lab (a very sore point with her). One day the inspector came to visit. Auntie Nora arranged a special lesson for us. She covered the teacher's table with a cow's heart and lungs and was busy inflating one of the lungs when the inspecter arrived (her timing was perfect). He took one look at the bloody mess on the desk, blanched, and took a few steps back. However Auntie Nora insisted he come in and join in the lesson. Shorlty after that our new biology lab was approved!
She also organised great birthday parties and invented interesting games to play. I remember one where she filled lots of little bottles with different spices and other fragrances. We were blindfolded and had to guess what each bottle contained.
My parents told how once when she was travelling in the Transkei a naughty kid threw a stone at her car. Auntie Nora skidded to a halt, tucked her skirt in her pants and ran down the hill after him .She caught him some way down, smacked his bottom, and marched back up to her car. I doubt the child tried the same trick again!
She was a wonderfully inventive and interesting person. Very definitely someone worth knowing.
Love
Pat 14 April 2011 10:34 Re: Death of Nora Stone
