Harry Norman

BURIAL RITES HERE FOR HARRY NORMAN 

Rev. N. R. Simpson conducted graveside rites in St. Jude's Cemetery at 4:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon for Harry Norman, 75, native and former resident, who died in St. Louis Sunday, November 16.  Beginning his newspaper career on the La Grange "Missouri Indicator", Mr. Norman became city editor of the old St. Louis "Republic" and later worked on rewrite desks of all the St. Louis newspapers.  He also held positions with newspapers in New York City, Washington, D.C. and El Paso, Texas. 

For the past 30 years, he had limited his writing to special historical articles, many of which were published in the Monroe City News and was a frequent contributor to the "Mirror", a magazine published in St. Louis.  
 
He was author of one book title "Five Famous Missourians."  Mr. Norman was never married.  His closest relative is an uncle, Melvin P. Nolen, of Gulf Hammock, Fla. W.M. Nolen, Miss Berta Lee Nolen and Mrs. R. Milstead Noel of this city, also Att. Ralph & Oliver W. Nolen of Paris are cousins. His mother was the late Mrs. Mary Norman. 


Source: Pg 1 of the Monroe City News dated 1 Nov 1952.  Submitted by Norma J. (Norman) Dunten.