Norman Orsag

Norman Orsag Obituary

In Loving Memory of Norman Orsag

October 5, 1951 – September 10, 2025

Norman Orsag, age 73, of Reynoldsburg, OH, passed away at home, surrounded by his family on Wednesday, September 10, 2025. He was born on October 5, 1951, in Ashtabula, OH, to Frank and Velma Orsag, who later moved and raised him and his siblings Dorothy, John, and Kate in Chillicothe, OH.

Norman, or Norm as he was personally known, spent his childhood and high school years in Chillicothe, OH. When he came of age, he started helping his “Pop”, Frank, to clean and perform maintenance at his bar in town and attended high school at Bishop Flaget, where Norm met and dated his wife Linda, and graduated in 1969.

After high school, Norm briefly attended college at both Ohio University’s Chillicothe and Athens campuses, but ultimately decided to volunteer with the Ohio Army National Guard and honorably served as a medic. During his tour of service, Norm and Linda married at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Chillicothe on September 22, 1973, and when not serving, was employed by Ohio Bell (now known as AT&T) in the Columbus/central Ohio area, starting as a pay phone coin collector and eventually working his way up over a thirty-nine year career to his final job as a central office technician, being known to some coworkers and others in the company as “Stormin’ Norman”.

In the years afterwards and up to his retirement in 2012, Norm and his wife Linda moved into their current house and forever home in Reynoldsburg, welcomed the births of their son Jason and daughter Megan, and being the pet lovers they were, the adoption of many pet family members (dogs, birds, turtles, guinea pigs, and fish, among others), creating a home that was bright, lively, teasing, yet loving, caring, and dignified as Norm and Linda’s temperaments were. Over the years, Norm and his family made many wonderful memories and family traditions together in their everyday lives and during birthdays, graduations, anniversaries, first Communions, Confirmations, weddings, and holidays like Easter, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and especially Christmas, which were celebrated annually with both Norm and Linda’s sides of their families at their relatives’ homes in Reynoldsburg and Chillicothe, respectively.

After retirement, Norm worked for a short time as a security guard at a hotel and warehouse to earn a little extra household income and otherwise enjoyed his retirement years with his beloved family and their many pets as he always had.

In the last year of his life, Norm, who had quadruple bypass heart surgery and valve replacement a handful of years before then, suddenly found his health sharply decline after taking a fall at home, going through a harrowing series of hospitalizations due to various known and unknown internal health problems, including cardiovascular issues and a previously unknown non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, all of which he faced and struggled with considerable perseverance, courage, and dignity as it took an overbearing precedence in his life. Eventually, Norm was admitted to hospice care at his Reynoldsburg home for most of this remaining period of his life until his relatively sudden passing away primarily due to heart failure with further complications from type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver at home, surrounded by his family.

Norm was a true blessing in life to those who knew him and were close to him, whether as a husband, father, human companion to his pets, a brother, uncle, son, coworker, or as a friend. He worked with dedication, perseverance, and courage to provide a happy, healthy, and safe life for his family over a thirty nine year career as a telephone company employee, work that on limited occasion, according to Norm’s years-worth of stories, brought real danger to him, ranging from working and traveling in dangerous weather, being attacked by dangerous animals, and even once being held up at gunpoint. In personal life, he was a fun, sociable, and playful, yet loving, comforting, and peaceful presence to those around him, watching television and playing with his pets or children at home while sharing stories of his childhood, military service, or work with his family, chatting with family and relatives at family gatherings, or catching up with friendly coworkers outside of work when they crossed paths. For his family and relatives, his absence will sorely be felt everyday going forward, whether in daily life or in every holiday or other special event in their lives where his presence would have otherwise brought a certain happiness and grace to the occasion, with the only comfort being the knowledge that he is being welcomed by loved ones who await him peacefully in Heaven, alongside our heavenly Father and his kingdom.

Norm was preceded in death by his father, Frank Orsag, his mother, Velma Orsag, his eldest sister, Dorothy Orsag, and a number of Norman and his own family’s beloved pets over the years of his life, especially their dogs Kasie, Daisy, Lacey, Scooter, and Precious.

Survived by his wife, Linda, their son, Jason, their daughter, Megan, and his “grand-birdy”, Dude.

Funeral Arrangements:

Visitation:

Sunday, September 28, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Pfeifer Woodyard Funeral & Cremation Services

7915 East Main Street, Reynoldsburg OH 43068

Funeral Mass:

Monday, September 29, 2025, 10:00 AM

Saint Pius X Catholic Church

1051 Waggoner Road, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068

Final Resting Place Ceremony:

Monday, September 29, 2025, after the funeral mass

Glen Rest Memorial Estates

8029 East Main Street, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068

Pfeifer-Woodyard Funeral Home is honored to serve the family.