Haralson County GaArchives Obituaries.....Norton, Albert Frank April 11, 1930
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"The Cleburne News"
Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, APRIL 17, 1930

WAR VETERAN BURIED SUNDAY AT NEW HARMONY

Funeral services for Albert Frank Norton, 41, World War Veteran, who died 
April 11th in the Government Hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana, were 
conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday from New Harmony Baptist church near here, the 
Rev. Hobart Murphree of Birmingham officiating. Cleburne Post No. 19, 
American Legion, was in charge of burial services which were held at the 
church cemetery, a firing squad in charge of Corporal Campbell, Co. K. 
Twenty-Second Infantry, Fort McClelland, assisting.

Mr. Norton had been in ill health for the last several years and had 
received treatment in three veterans hospitals in Tennessee, Florida and 
Louisiana. He was born and reared in Bremen, Ga., but had been a citizen of 
Heflin since 1912. Surviving are his widow Mrs. Lillie Bell Norton of 
Heflin; his father J. Hogan Norton of Atlanta; two brothers, Harry Norton of 
Memphis, Tenn.; T.P. Norton of Rome, Ga.; two sisters, Mrs. Slaughter and 
Miss Mattie Norton of Atlanta.

Pallbearers were Cleburne Legionnaires, E.P. Dodson, C.M. Elliott, J.H. 
Morris, J.L. Lovejoy, J.A. Morgan and Frank Lambert.

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LOCAL News

Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Groover of Hartselle attended the funeral and burial here 
on Sunday of their brother-in-law, Frank Norton. They returned Monday 
accompanied by Mrs. Norton.

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A.W. Brown, former resident, but now living in Birmingham, spent several 
days here last week the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Albert Norton.

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NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, APRIL 24, 1930


CARD OF APPRECIATION

We wish to thank our many friends for their expressions of sympathy and 
especially do we thank the American Legion of Cleburne county for the 
beautiful floral offering, at the death of our beloved husband, son and 
brother, Alfred Frank Norton.

Mrs. Lille Belle Norton

J.O. Norton

Miss Mattie Norton

T.P. Norton

J.H. Norton

Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Groover

R.T. Chambers

Harselle, Ala., 4-21-1930

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