Synnove Cason Obituary (1934 - 2020)

MADISON Synnove "Nina" Bjorndalen Cason, 85, died on Monday, February 3, 2020 at Hospice of Rockingham County. All services will be private. Mrs. Cason embodied love as a daughter, sister, friend, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was born in Ulefos, Norway, the youngest child of the late Sveinung and Hilda Bjorndalen. She was best friends since 1940 with Hilde Simonsen Simmons, longtime resident of Madison, NC with her daughter, Rosemary Simmons Pyrtle and her family. She devoted her life to her family and the countless children she cared for over the years. Synnove loved life singing, dancing, traveling, cooking, collecting angels and inexpensive beautiful objects. She wasted nothing, saved everything and brought beauty to everything. She became an American citizen in 1958, but her heart remained in her homeland of Norway. She is survived by her four children, four grandchildren, two great-grandsons, two sisters-in-law, her best friend, Hilde and her children ("Nina" was their second mother), countless friends, including her good friends at Scott Commons the past five years, and countless children whose lives she touched with love. To know her was to love her. She will be missed and never forgotten. May she rest in peace. The prayer below was displayed on her homes walls alongside of family photographs and other words of wisdom: "GOD MADE US A FAMILY WE NEED ONE ANOTHER WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER WE FORGIVE ONE ANOTHER WE WORK TOGETHER WE PLAY TOGETHER WE WORSHIP TOGETHER TOGETHER WE USE GOD'S WORD TOGETHER WE GROW IN CHRIST TOGETHER WE LOVE ALL MEN TOGETHER WE SERVE OUR GOD TOGETHER WE HOPE FOR HEAVEN THESE ARE OUR HOPES AND IDEALS HELP US TO ATTAIN THEM, O GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD." Colonial Funeral Home in Madison is serving the family.