Ira Dean Norris

1916 - 1950  (33 years)

• Name	Ira Dean Norris  [1]
  Born	30 July 1916	Virginia, Cass Co., Illinois, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 March 1950	Virginia, Cass Co., Illinois, USA   [1]
  Buried	18 March 1950	Virginia, Cass Co., Illinois, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I74059	Clan Moffat Genealogy
  Last Modified	14 January 2009

  
  

  Father	John Flavel Norris,   b. 17 December 1871, Mount Sterling, Brown Co., Illinois, USA ,   d. 25 January 1936, Virginia, Cass Co., Illinois, USA  (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Henrietta Sours,   b. 25 December 1876, Chandlerville, Cass Co., Illinois, USA ,   d. 19 May 1961, Jacksonville, Morgan Co., Illinois, USA  (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F51642	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family/Spouse	Sadie Christine Degroot,   b. 22 June 1927, Panther Creek Twp., Cass Co., Illinois, USA ,   d. 1 January 2002, Beardstown, Cass Co., Illinois, USA  (Age 74 years)
  Married	7 January 1944	Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa, USA   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Living + 2. Living
  Family ID	F51596	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  BIRTH: Cass County Clerk---Virginia, Illinois Birth Certificate MARRIAGE: DEATH: Cass County Clerk---Virginia, Illinois CEMETERY: Walnut Ridge---Virginia, Illinois OBITUARY: Illinois State Journal---Springfield, Illinois 16 Mar 1950---Page 1 Power Saw Kills Man At Virginia Special To The State Journal VIRGINIA, March 15--Ira Dean Norris, 33, of Virginia, was injured fatally at 9:30 a.m. today when the rotary blade of a power saw, which he was operating, was hurled from its shaft and struck him in the head. He died in an ambulance en route to Schmidt Memorial hospital at Beardstown. Norris was sawing wood in a timber on his farm south of Virginia. He was being assisted by another man, who was not injured. An inquest will be held in Virginia Thursday morning. Norris was born in Virginia July 30, 1916, son of John and Henrietta Norris. His mother survives. Other survivors include his wife, Mrs. Sadie DeGroot Norris; two daughters, Bessie and Doris; nine brothers, Henry, George and Edward, all of Davenport, Ia.; James, Earl, John, Garland and Wilbert, all of Virginia; William, of Chicago, and one sister, Mrs. Edward Dyer, of Virginia. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Massie funeral home in Virginia. Rev. Wilber Allen, of the Virginia Lutheran church, will officiate and burial will be in Walnut Ridge cemetery. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1966] GEDCOM file titled “William Robert Moffitt Geneaology.GED”, from Chuck Sours.