Family
In 1922, Ezra Norton married an English war widow, Lillian Mary (Molly) Willoughby (1892-1952). Molly was a 29-year-old dancing teacher. He also adopted her infant son, John Stanley Norton. They were happily married for 30 years until Molly Norton died suddenly on 20 March 1952.
The following year on 11 June 1953, Norton married Emma Georgina (Peggy) Morrison (1915-2008) and they had one child, a daughter, Mary Norton. (Born 1955)
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