DONALD D. NORWOOD

March 05, 2021

BARTLESVILLE, Okla.- Services were held at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, at Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel for Donald D. Norwood, 94, Bartlesville, who died Saturday, Feb. 20, 2020. Rev. Tari Carbaugh officiated. Burial was in the Memorial Park Cemetery.

Donations may be made in his honor to Wounded Warriors or Light House Mission.

Condolences may be sent online at www.stumpff.org.

Survivors include his daughter, Donna Patton and husband Gary, Bartlesville; four grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.

He was preceded in death by his sister, Lois McClintock; his brother, H.F. “Jr.”; his wife, Joan; his daughter, Denise Norwood and his grandson, Scott Frederic.

Mr. Norwood was born July 31, 1926, in Lamar, Mo., to Herrell and Maurine Norwood, where he was raised and worked on the family farm. He was a 1944 graduate of Lamar High School and served as an infantryman in World War II. He was in the invasion of the Philippines and the occupation of Japan. After the war he earned a chemical engineering degree from the University of Missouri-Rolla and subsequently married his high school sweetheart, Joan Elizabeth Montee.

He went to work for Union Carbide in Oakridge, Tenn. and accepted a position with Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville in 1956, where the couple thought it would be a nice place to raise their two young daughters. In 1966, Phillips patented Norwood’s loop reactor that allowed for the commercialization of polyethylene and polypropylene plastic that is still being licensed and utilized globally. He was presented the Lifetime Achievement award in 2006 and was inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame in 2015.