Carnahan, Norma Jean (1937-1955)

CARNAHAN

Posted By: C. Tucker (email)
Date: 9/9/2014 at 16:00:35

Times Republican
Marshalltown, IA [8-22-1955] p. 5

NORMA CARNAHAN, GILMAN CAGE STAR, DIES IN CRASH

Norma Jean Carnahan, 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carnahan, Gilman, was killed Saturday night in an automobile crash about six miles north of Grinnell on Highway 146. She was a passenger in a car driven by her fiance, Gary Parmenter, 19, also of Gilman. The southbound auto apparently struck a shoulder of a crossroad and smashed into a culvert about 9:30 p.m. One report said the car flipped about 60 feet into the air. PARMENTER WAS taken to a Grinnell hospital after the accident and was later transferred to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines for brain surgery. He was reported in fairly good condition Sunday night. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Parmenter, who live on a farm about five miles southwest of Gilman. Miss Carnahan, a 1955 graduate of Gilman High School, was a star forward on the Gilman girls basketball team which captured third place in the 1955 state tournament in Des Moines. Since her graduation she has been employed at City Loan Co. in Marshalltown. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Gilman Methodist Church with the Rev. Corwin Taylor in charge. Burial will be in Pleasantview Cemetery in Gilman. The body is at the Smith Funeral Home in Grinnell. It will be taken to Gilman Tuesday morning and will be at the church after 11 a.m. BEARERS WILL be Robert Berthusen, Gary Davis, Milton Dixon, Robert Lovig, Vernon Sturtz and Gary Willard, all classmates of Miss Carnahan. Miss Carnahan was born July 15, 1937 at Reasnor, moving to Gilman with her parents about seven years ago. Surviving besides the parents, are a sister, Helen, and two brothers, Frank and Jimmy.