Obituaries: Perry A. Norman, 1979, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: December 19, 1979 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Perry A. Norman

Perry A. Norman, 79, of Dallas, Texas, born in Plain Dealing, Louisiana, who
grew up in Winnfield, Louisiana, died Tuesday, December 11, 1979 in Dallas
where funeral services were held at 12:30 p.m. Friday, December 14, 1979 in
Restland Wildwood Chapel with Reverend Robert I. Bush and Reverend Felix B.
Kindel, Munger Place United Methodist Church, officiating.

Norman attended Louisiana College as a member of the Students Training Corps
during World War I and was a graduate of Washington and Lee University Law
School in Lexington, Virginia.  He started his Western Union career as a Morse
operator prior to entering law school and continued as an employee of the
company on a part-time basis while pursuing his law studies .  He was a former
member of the Louisiana Bar and practiced law in the state briefly before
joining Western Union's Division Headquarters Organization in Dallas in 1928. 
He held various supervisory positions in Western Union, and for eighteen years
prior to his retirement, he directed the operation of the company's leased
communications systems in eight southwestern states.  He was a former member
of the Armed Forces Communications Association, a Master Mason, and a member
of the Munger Place United Methodist Church.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Long Norman; a son, Perry
Allen Norman, Jr., of Newark, Delaware; two grandsons, David and Scott; and a
sister, Mrs. Alliene Hoffman of Winnfield, La.

Mrs. Alliene Hoffman, Mrs. Agnes Trahan, and G. P. Long of Winnfield attended
the last rites in Dallas.