Norma Alice Price, author, religious leader, mother and wife, passed from this life on September 30, 2006. In 1943, she married Thornton Walton Price, Jr., who had a long academic career that concluded in a professorship in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Arizona State University. Norma and Thornton had three children: Thornton died in 1991. The Price family were among the founding members of the Tempe Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).