Norman Wade Dunlap Jr.
November 2, 1928 – February 11, 2007
Norman Wade Dunlap Jr. of Hayward, California, passed away Sunday, February 11, 2007, in Hayward Hills Healthcare Center following a brief illness. Born in McClellandtown, Pennsylvania, to Norman Wade Dunlap and Olive Brashear Dunlap, Norman was raised in Nemacolin, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1946 from the now former Cumberland Township High School in Carmichaels, Pennsylvania.
Norman retired from the United States Navy as a Chief Yeoman in 1971 following a 20-year career that included submarine duty and staff assignments on three continents.
He then worked in civil service for the federal government, retiring in 1985.
A 33rd Degree member of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Norman was a member of the Live Oak Lodge No. 61 in Oakland, California, a Past Master of the San Leandro-Brooklyn Lodge and a Past Venerable Master of the Oakland Scottish Rite.
Since 1991, he had served as editor of the Scottish Rite Bulletin.
From 1993 until his death, he was employed part-time in the General Secretary’s Office of the Oakland Scottish Rite.
He will be dearly missed by his family, countless friends and fellow Masons.
He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Kathleen Gallagher Dunlap of their home in Hayward; one son, John Dunlap of Conway, South Carolina; three daughters: Denise Dunlap (Ernest Gish) of Fort Loudon, Pennsylvania, Anne Dunlap-Kahren (Mark Kahren) of Sacramento, California, and Margaret Dunlap of Alameda, California; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
He is also survived by four brothers: Don of Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, Carl (and Helen) of Norfolk, Virginia, Chuck (and Beverly) of Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, and Richard (and Sandy) of Fredericksburg, Virginia, as well as three nieces and five nephews.
A Memorial Service will be held on Sunday, March 25, 2007, at 2 p.m. at the OAKLAND SCOTTISH RITE CENTER, 1547 Lakeside Drive, Oakland CA 94612 (510-451-1903).
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial gifts be made to the Childhood Language Disorders Clinic at the Oakland Scottish Rite.