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Norma Bernice <I>Russom</I> Herbst

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Norma Bernice Russom Herbst

Birth
Arkansas, USA
Death
14 Aug 1961 (aged 40)
Illinois, USA
Burial
Hazen, Prairie County, Arkansas, USA Add to Map
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[Published in the Memphis Press-Scimtar on August 13, 1961]

Memphis Woman Dies in Crash
Killed in Wreck in Illinois

Mrs. Norma Russom Herbst, 40, of 1473 Mink, left Memphis with her son, Leon, to drive to Chicago. Her husband, Charles, is an employee of the telephone company there.
Near Vienna, Ill., Mrs. Herbst attempted to pass a gravel truck, lost control and was killed when the car crashed into a ditch and she was hurled into a barbed wire fence, police said.
Police said they found the child, uninjured, standing near the wreckage crying for his mother. It happened at 3 p.m. yesterday.
Mrs. Herbst lived in Memphis with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Z. T. Russom. Mrs. Russom said her daughter had managed Dobbs House at 2285 S. Bellevue since May. She said Mrs. Herbst traveled back and forth between Memphis and Chicago.
Mrs. Herbst also leaves a married daughter, Mrs. Shirley Thomas, 20, of Detroit, and a grown son, William Steakely of 1446 S. Orleans; four brothers, Glenn Russom, Francis Russom, and Harold Russom all of Memphis, and Z. T. Russom Jr. of Little Rock; six sisters, Mrs. C. C. Hood, Mrs. M. C. Brown, Mrs. Victor Carroll and Mrs. Hazel Gaither, all of Memphis; and Mrs. Edward Reisz of Owensboro, Ky., and Mrs. Forrest Bogart of Forrest City, Ark.
National Funeral Home in charge.
[Published in the Memphis Press-Scimtar on August 13, 1961]

Memphis Woman Dies in Crash
Killed in Wreck in Illinois

Mrs. Norma Russom Herbst, 40, of 1473 Mink, left Memphis with her son, Leon, to drive to Chicago. Her husband, Charles, is an employee of the telephone company there.
Near Vienna, Ill., Mrs. Herbst attempted to pass a gravel truck, lost control and was killed when the car crashed into a ditch and she was hurled into a barbed wire fence, police said.
Police said they found the child, uninjured, standing near the wreckage crying for his mother. It happened at 3 p.m. yesterday.
Mrs. Herbst lived in Memphis with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Z. T. Russom. Mrs. Russom said her daughter had managed Dobbs House at 2285 S. Bellevue since May. She said Mrs. Herbst traveled back and forth between Memphis and Chicago.
Mrs. Herbst also leaves a married daughter, Mrs. Shirley Thomas, 20, of Detroit, and a grown son, William Steakely of 1446 S. Orleans; four brothers, Glenn Russom, Francis Russom, and Harold Russom all of Memphis, and Z. T. Russom Jr. of Little Rock; six sisters, Mrs. C. C. Hood, Mrs. M. C. Brown, Mrs. Victor Carroll and Mrs. Hazel Gaither, all of Memphis; and Mrs. Edward Reisz of Owensboro, Ky., and Mrs. Forrest Bogart of Forrest City, Ark.
National Funeral Home in charge.

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