Norma Lee (French) Hobble, 74, died May 23 at Lake Chelan Hospital, from complications from 33 years of multiple sclerosis.

She was born Feb. 16, 1929, in Tacoma to Robert and Ellen French, and grew up chasing cattle with her dad on the U Bar U cattle ranch near Conconully, Wash., homesteaded by her grandfather.

She graduated from Omak High School in 1947, and from Washington State College in 1952. She was Omak Stampede Queen in 1947.

She married Robert “Bob” Hobble in 1953. She and Bob spent the next 48 years in Seattle and on Bainbridge Island, where they raised two daughters.

In June 2001, they moved to Lake Shelan.

She is survived by her husband Bob; daughters Lee Ann (David) Sleder of Bainbridge, and Cammile Derricote and grandson Eliot of Northampton, Mass.; and one uncle and five cousins. She was preceded in death by two sisters.

Services were held May 28, with burial at the family plot in Conconully, Wash. Direction was by Precht Rose Chapel, Chelan.