Former owner and matriarch of the S. Cohen & Sons dry goods business in Grand Falls-Windsor, Norma A. Cohen passed away at her home on August 4, 2011 in Grand Falls at the age of 97. Norma and her sister Freda moved to Newfound-land from Poland in 1926 when Norma was twelve years old. Norma was a devoted mother, sister and aunt, and a pioneering business-woman. Norma was predeceased by her husband Jacob (Jack) Cohen, her sister Freda Cohen and Freda's husband and Jack's brother Michael Cohen. She is survived by her daughter Barbara Cohen, her son Michael D. Cohen and his wife Queena, grandson Daniel and his wife Melanie, grandson Stephen, grand-daughter Tracy and husband Steven, great grandchildren Randi-Lea, Jacob, Emily and Benjamin. Her nephew Boyd Cohen and his wife Marie, her great-nieces and nephews and Boyd and Marie's children, Michael T. and his wife Carolann Cohen, Nancy Cohen and her husband Robert Gallant, Margaret Cohen and her husband Howard Zinman, David Cohen and his wife Sarah, and Norma's great-great-nieces and nephews and Boyd and Marie's grandchildren, Michael J. Cohen and his wife Donna, Emily Cohen Gallant, Adrian Cohen Gallant, Isabel Zinman, Clara Zinman, Ethan Cohen and Samuel Cohen. She will be dearly missed. Funeral service was at Carnell’s Funeral Home, St. John’s. Interment was at the Jewish Cemetery, Black Marsh Road, St. John’s.