Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, October 23, 1993 TAG: 9310230070
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
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He once told an interviewer that he had intended to go to college and medical school.
But when he graduated from Jefferson High School in 1924, he went to work for Wellons and Cofer, a men's clothing store, to save money for college.
He became a partner, but the store went out of business in 1932 at the depth of the Great Depression. That's when he opened his own store downtown.
The store has left downtown, but has branches at three Roanoke malls.
Norman sold the business in 1971.
He was past president of the Roanoke Kiwanis Club, Roanoke Merchants Association and Little Theater League.
Norman had also served on the board of the Roanoke Chamber of Commerce and been an elder of First Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are his wife, Caroline Moore Norman or Roanoke; two daughters, Caroline Corpening of High Point, N.C., and Suzanne Avis of Roanoke; and a sister, Evelyn Beaver of Granite Quarry, N.C.
The funeral will be 3 p.m. today at First Presbyterian Church with burial in Evergreen. Oakey's Roanoke Chapel is handling the arrangements.
The family requests in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to First Presbyterian Church, Downtown Kiwanis Club, City Rescue Missions or a favorite charity.
by CNB