4/1/76
Smith Rites Scheduled Here Today
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today for News-Star wire editor Norman Henson Smith, 63 of 1409 N. 5th St., Monroe, who died Tuesday in St. Francis Hospital here after a long illness.
Services will be held in the chapel of Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Monroe with the Rev. James Stovall officiating. Burial will be in the Monroe Memorial Park Cemetery.
The veteran newspaperman came to the News-Star-World in 1960 and was appointed wire editor short time later.
His newspaper career began in 1935 at the Oklahoma News in Oklahoma City, Okla. He worked for the Associated Press' Tulsa, Okla., bureau during 1943, but left to enter military service during World War II.
After the war, he went to the Guthrie Daily Leader in Guthrie, Okla., as news editor. During his extensive newspaper career, he also worked for the Enid Morning News in Enid, Okla., and the Greenville Banner in Greenville, Tex. He held position of news editor at the Greenville newspaper.
A Millport, Ala. Native, he spent his childhood in Oklahoma City, Okla. He was a state commander of the American Legion and a member of the Lion's Club and Masonic Lodge in Guthrie, Okla.
Mr. Smith also attended the University of Oklahoma.
Survivors in addition to his widow, Mrs. Bette Ellen Smith, include sister, Mrs. Roy Nicholson of Oklahoma City, Okla., and several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Jack Gates, Bill Hardin, Glen Guilkey, W. D. Ballard, Oland Silk and Richard Tyler.
Smith Rites Scheduled Here Today
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today for News-Star wire editor Norman Henson Smith, 63 of 1409 N. 5th St., Monroe, who died Tuesday in St. Francis Hospital here after a long illness.
Services will be held in the chapel of Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Monroe with the Rev. James Stovall officiating. Burial will be in the Monroe Memorial Park Cemetery.
The veteran newspaperman came to the News-Star-World in 1960 and was appointed wire editor short time later.
His newspaper career began in 1935 at the Oklahoma News in Oklahoma City, Okla. He worked for the Associated Press' Tulsa, Okla., bureau during 1943, but left to enter military service during World War II.
After the war, he went to the Guthrie Daily Leader in Guthrie, Okla., as news editor. During his extensive newspaper career, he also worked for the Enid Morning News in Enid, Okla., and the Greenville Banner in Greenville, Tex. He held position of news editor at the Greenville newspaper.
A Millport, Ala. Native, he spent his childhood in Oklahoma City, Okla. He was a state commander of the American Legion and a member of the Lion's Club and Masonic Lodge in Guthrie, Okla.
Mr. Smith also attended the University of Oklahoma.
Survivors in addition to his widow, Mrs. Bette Ellen Smith, include sister, Mrs. Roy Nicholson of Oklahoma City, Okla., and several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Jack Gates, Bill Hardin, Glen Guilkey, W. D. Ballard, Oland Silk and Richard Tyler.
4/1/76
Smith Rites Scheduled Here Today
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today for News-Star wire editor Norman Henson Smith, 63 of 1409 N. 5th St., Monroe, who died Tuesday in St. Francis Hospital here after a long illness.
Services will be held in the chapel of Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Monroe with the Rev. James Stovall officiating. Burial will be in the Monroe Memorial Park Cemetery.
The veteran newspaperman came to the News-Star-World in 1960 and was appointed wire editor short time later.
His newspaper career began in 1935 at the Oklahoma News in Oklahoma City, Okla. He worked for the Associated Press' Tulsa, Okla., bureau during 1943, but left to enter military service during World War II.
After the war, he went to the Guthrie Daily Leader in Guthrie, Okla., as news editor. During his extensive newspaper career, he also worked for the Enid Morning News in Enid, Okla., and the Greenville Banner in Greenville, Tex. He held position of news editor at the Greenville newspaper.
A Millport, Ala. Native, he spent his childhood in Oklahoma City, Okla. He was a state commander of the American Legion and a member of the Lion's Club and Masonic Lodge in Guthrie, Okla.
Mr. Smith also attended the University of Oklahoma.
Survivors in addition to his widow, Mrs. Bette Ellen Smith, include sister, Mrs. Roy Nicholson of Oklahoma City, Okla., and several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Jack Gates, Bill Hardin, Glen Guilkey, W. D. Ballard, Oland Silk and Richard Tyler.
Smith Rites Scheduled Here Today
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today for News-Star wire editor Norman Henson Smith, 63 of 1409 N. 5th St., Monroe, who died Tuesday in St. Francis Hospital here after a long illness.
Services will be held in the chapel of Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Monroe with the Rev. James Stovall officiating. Burial will be in the Monroe Memorial Park Cemetery.
The veteran newspaperman came to the News-Star-World in 1960 and was appointed wire editor short time later.
His newspaper career began in 1935 at the Oklahoma News in Oklahoma City, Okla. He worked for the Associated Press' Tulsa, Okla., bureau during 1943, but left to enter military service during World War II.
After the war, he went to the Guthrie Daily Leader in Guthrie, Okla., as news editor. During his extensive newspaper career, he also worked for the Enid Morning News in Enid, Okla., and the Greenville Banner in Greenville, Tex. He held position of news editor at the Greenville newspaper.
A Millport, Ala. Native, he spent his childhood in Oklahoma City, Okla. He was a state commander of the American Legion and a member of the Lion's Club and Masonic Lodge in Guthrie, Okla.
Mr. Smith also attended the University of Oklahoma.
Survivors in addition to his widow, Mrs. Bette Ellen Smith, include sister, Mrs. Roy Nicholson of Oklahoma City, Okla., and several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Jack Gates, Bill Hardin, Glen Guilkey, W. D. Ballard, Oland Silk and Richard Tyler.
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