NORMAN EDWARD MORIN, SR., 83, died at Homewood of Williamsport, 16505 Virginia Avenue, Williamsport, Maryland. His previous residences were East Wilson Blvd, Hagerstown and Halfway. He was born December 7, 1921 in Hagerstown, Maryland, he was the son of the late Keller Newton and Carrie Mort Morin. He married Mary E. Hoffman Morin on May 19, 1943 at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Hagerstown. Pastor Roy L. Sloop married them. He was a 1940 graduate of Hagerstown High School. He served in the U. S. Army from 1944 to 1946 in the countries of France and Germany. He was at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when it was liberated. He was employed by Fairchild Aircraft from 1940 to his retirement in 1981. He was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Hagerstown. He was a member of the American Legion, Dixon-Troxell Post 211 in Funkstown, and the U.A.W. Local 842. He coached Halfway Little League and Hagerstown Junior League. He was an avid baseball fan and enjoyed thoroughbred horse racing. He is survived by his wife of sixty-one years, Mary E. Morin; surviving children and their spouses are daughter Barbara J. Bachtell, and husband, George, of Olney, Maryland, and daughter Nancy L. Cowden, and husband, Bill, of Williamsport, Maryland; son Norman E. Morin, Jr., and wife, Ellie, of Smithsburg, Maryland, and son John K. Morin, and wife, Kathy, of Hagerstown, Maryland; there are seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Two sisters, Ruth Renner of Hagerstown and Martha Beauchamp of Durham, North Carolina, also survive him. He was preceded in death by two sisters, Louise Saum, and Jane Waine; two brothers, Newton Morin, and Paul "Peck" Morin. Services will be held Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at 1:00pm at Minnich Funeral Home, 415 East Wilson Boulevard. Rev. David B. Kaplan will officiate. Burial will be private for family members at Cedar Lawn Memorial Park in Hagerstown. Family will receive friends at the funeral home on Monday, December 27 from 7:00-9:00pm. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 601 Washington Avenue, Hagerstown, Maryland 21740, or Hospice of Washington County, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, Hagerstown, Maryland 21742.