1925 obit-Herbert S. Norcross-Brattleboro, VT
Date:	8/9/98 8:14:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time

from the Brattleboro Reformer
Brattleboro, Windham County, VT
			    1925

		PNEUMONIA FATAL TO H. S. NORCROSS

Death Occurs This Forenoon in Home on Guilford Street-- Was Odd
Fellow 		    and Granger--Funeral Monday

	Herbert Smith Norcross, 57, died at 10.15 o'clock this morning at his
home on Guilford street, of bronchial pneumonia.  He was taken ill
Sunday with bronchitis and pneumonia developed.  His condition had been
critical several days.

	Born in West Dummerston Dec. 15, 1868, his parents were Alonzo O. and
Sarah (Nichols) Norcross.  He was one of a family of six children.  A
sister, Mary, wife of Harry Horton of Kalamazoo, Mich., formerly of
Brattleboro, died about 19 years ago.  Mr. Norcross spent his younger
days in West Dummerston, but he had lived in Brattleboro many years,
working at his trade as a carpenter.

	He married Miss Esther Taylor of West Dummerston who died five years
ago this month. On Sept. 1, 1925, he married Miss Elizabeth Mixner of
Brattleboro, who survives.  Besides his wife, he leaves his mother, who
was spending the winter in his Guilford street home, and one brother,
Frank A. Norcross of Vernon and three sisters, Mrs. Lorenzo S. McCrellis
of Brattleboro, Mrs. Henry O. Halladay of West Brattleboro and Mrs.
Julius Wood of Rochester, N.Y.  He also leaves five nephews.

	Mr. Norcross was a member of Wantastiquet Lodge of Odd Fellows and
Protective Grange.  He was an attendant at the First Baptist church.

	A prayer service will be held Monday morning at 11 o'clock in the home
on Guilford street, Rev. Albert H. Gage D.D., pastor of the First
Baptist church officiating.  The funeral service will be held at 2
o'clock at Mitchell's funeral home, Rev. Delmar Trout of Springfield,
Mass, former pastor of the First Universalist church in Brattleboro,
will officiate.  The burial will take place in Morningside cemetery.
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(c)1998, Terry Perham
Courtesy of
Terry Perham
Hinsdale, NH
tess@sover.net

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