Published in the Goldendale Sentinel, September 24, 1964, page 13
[Copied from the original newspaper by Researcher E Rowley]
Wilbur Martin Norris
"Wilbur Martin Norris, named after Father Wilbur, son of Captain Newton and Mary E. Martin Norris was born on the Norris ranch November 22, 1882
and died in a Caldwell, Ida., hospital September 15, 1964 following surgery.
He attended the No. 4 school and worked on his father’s ranch until leaving Goldendale in 1906.
He purchased acreage near Caldwell, Ida., where the family still resides.
He was united in marriage to Elizabeth Wigund in 1920.
Survivors include the widow, Elizabeth, two sons, Clinton and Jim and a daughter, Mary Alice True all of Caldwell; two brothers, Walter D. of Goldendale and Edgar C. of Santa Barbara, Calif.; one sister,
Eva Budd, in a nursing home in The Dalles; three nephews and three nieces.
A sister Beulah Ward, preceded him in death in 1908; a brother Ray (Dr. N. R.) in 1937.
Funeral services were held in Nampa, Ida., September 21, 1964.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Norris of Goldendale attended the funeral."
[Researcher Note: Wilbur Norris was buried in the Kohlerlawn Cemetery in
Nampa, Idaho.]
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