Lenora T. (Short) Thorsen died February 26, 2009. She was born April 3, 1917, and raised in Ardmore, Oklahoma, to Robert and Myrtle Short. She graduated from Oklahoma A&M College, Stillwater, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She later attended Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, and received her Master's Degree from the University of Oklahoma, Norman. She worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D. C., before returning to Oklahoma City to marry Lt. Wilbur Thorsen on March 9, 1944. They adopted two children, Greg and Gaye. Lenora began her teaching career in Shawnee before transferring to Hefner Junior High School and then later Putnam City West High School where she taught English and Latin. For 13 years she organized and attended a summer trip for statewide Latin students to the National Latin Students Conventions held all over the country. While at Putnam City West she originated the Practical Instruction Program and initiated the continuing Putnam City District Golden Apple Award program. She was chosen Putnam City Teacher of the Year and later became Language Arts Coordinator for the Putnam City School District. She was a longtime member of First Presbyterian Church where she served as an elder, deacon and Sunday School teacher. Preceded in death by her daughter Gaye and brother Bob Short, Lenora is survived by her husband Wilbur of 65 years, her son Greg and his wife Leann, Oklahoma City, and her brother, Tom Short and his wife, Roberta, Ponca City. Lenora was a person who made the world better and everyone who knew her. Viewing will be from noon until 9 p.m. Sunday at Mercer-Adams Funeral Home, 3925 N. Asbury, Bethany. Services will be Monday, 2 p.m., at First Presbyterian Church, 25th and N. Western, with internment at Memorial Park Cemetery, Memorial and N. Kelley.