Obit of Norwood Jr., Tracy B. - Murray County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Dennis Muncrief 16 Oct 2005 Return to Murray County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/murray/murray.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Norwood Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UaB.2ACI/1312 Tracy B. Norwood, Jr. Tracy B. Norwood, Jr. 81, of Amarillo, died Monday, Aug. 1,2005. Services were held on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005 in Amarillo, Texas. Burial was in the Llano Cemetery with military rites conducted by the DAV. Dr. Norwood was born July 12, 1924 in Collinston, La. to Tracy B. Norwood, Sr. and Mattie Lee Harper Norwood. He graduated from Nashville High School in Nashville, Ark. After graduation, he joined the US Navy in 1943 and served on the USS Richmond in the Pacific Theater. He was discharged from the Navy in 1945 and returned to Nashville, Ark. where he married Mary Catherine Dotson on December 4, 1945. Dr. Norwood received his bachelor's degree from Arkansas Tech University and his Master's degree from George Peabody College at Nashville, Tennessee. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Tulsa. He had a very successful coaching and teaching career. He was head football coach at Sulphur for five years. After a stint as football coach at U.S. Grant High School in Oklahoma City he became the head coach at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, from 1962 until 1974. He retired from Northeastern State University as a Professor of Education. Dr. Norwood was inducted in the Oklahoma Coaches' Hall of Fame and the Northeastern Redman Hall of Fame. He is a member of the First Baptist Church in Amarillo. He is survived by his wife, Catherine, and son, Tracy B. Norwood III and wife, Amy Knoll, Cleburne, Texas; three grandsons, James Tracy Norwood, Taylor Charles Norwood, and Wiley Robert Norwood; countless other young men who he loved as much as his son and grandsons. Among the players he coached in Sulphur were Gerald Benn, Dan Smith, Floyd "Red" Cottle, Robert Jackson and numerous others whom he talked of frequently. At Northeastern State University he coached several All Americans and numerous All Conference players. In his waning years he loved to sit with former players and talk about old times. He is still referred to as "Coach" by his former players. The family suggests memorials be to Don and Sybil Herrington Cancer Center, 1500 Wallace Blvd., Amarillo, T X 79106. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Murray County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/murray/murray.htm