Ella Norris (1929)

GENTRY, GRIFFITH, MOORE, NORRIS

Posted By: Linda Brittain
Date: 5/3/2006 at 21:12:39

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, July 4, 1929
Page 1

Death of Miss Ella Norris

Word was received here yesterday of the death of Miss Ella Norris of Minnesota, at St. Paul, on Wednesday morning, July 3. Miss Norris, who has been living at Crookston, Minnesota, with her brother, Jud Norris, has been ill for a long time with cancer. Her sisters, Mrs. Leonard Moore, of Indianola, and Mrs. Frank Gentry of Norwalk, had been in Minnesota, but they, with their brother and Miss Norris, had started back to Iowa. Her condition became worse in St. Paul, and she died in that city. The body will arrive in Des Moines tonight, and will be brought to Tidrick’s funeral home in Winterset. Funeral arrangements will be completed after the arrival of the relatives.
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Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
July 11, 1929 – page 3

Ella Norris

Ella Norris, daughter of Alfred and Mary J. Norris, was born in Madison county, July 12, 1870, and passed away at the St. Joseph’s hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, July 3, 1929, being 58 years, 11 months and 21 days old.

She spent the greater part of her life in Madison and Union counties, but for the past nine years had lived near Crookston, Minnesota. She united with the M. E. church at Lorimor, in 1912, and was baptized in that faith.

She was a good neighbor and a kind friend and will be greatly missed by a host of friends. Those of her family that are left, are, three sisters, Mrs. Kate Griffith of Winterset; Mrs. Leonard Moore, of Indianola, and Mrs. Frank Gentry, of Norwalk, and two brothers, Frank Norris of Thayer, and Jud Norris, of Crookston, Minnesota, with whom she resided. Besides these are her nieces and nephews, who will greatly miss her.