Norman's mother, Lerona (Helms) Luke, died when he was not-yet two years old, due to complications during childbirth. His brother, Raymon Richard Luke, passed two months later. Norman was then raised by his maternal grandparents, William Wallace and Anna May (Evans) Helms in Elkton.
Norman dropped out of school and was working in the woods logging by the time he was 15 years old. He met Dortha Rinehart in Elkton and they were married in 1931 and shortly thereafter moved to North Bend. His daughter and son were born and raised here. He worked for a pulp mill in Empire, Oregon (Menasha) from 1932 until it shut down 40 years later. He then worked for International Paper in Gardiner, Oregon until his retirement.
During the war he was injured on the job and hospitalized for 75 days. He was the first civilian to receive penicillin and the doctors had to get permission from the government to give it to him.
Norm was an avid outdoors-man. He loved to fish, garden, and explore his natural world. He built some of the first dune-buggies in the 1930's and several of his own homes. He was always working on, building, and repairing something. A talented craftsman, he spent his retirement years over the wood-lathe in his shop, behind the house he and Dot built in Glasgow on the Bay. He is remembered by his grandchildren as an exceptional whistler, and as the one who took his grandson rattlesnake hunting and taught his granddaughter to jig for squid, clean and cook 'em up! Norm was an original!
Norman dropped out of school and was working in the woods logging by the time he was 15 years old. He met Dortha Rinehart in Elkton and they were married in 1931 and shortly thereafter moved to North Bend. His daughter and son were born and raised here. He worked for a pulp mill in Empire, Oregon (Menasha) from 1932 until it shut down 40 years later. He then worked for International Paper in Gardiner, Oregon until his retirement.
During the war he was injured on the job and hospitalized for 75 days. He was the first civilian to receive penicillin and the doctors had to get permission from the government to give it to him.
Norm was an avid outdoors-man. He loved to fish, garden, and explore his natural world. He built some of the first dune-buggies in the 1930's and several of his own homes. He was always working on, building, and repairing something. A talented craftsman, he spent his retirement years over the wood-lathe in his shop, behind the house he and Dot built in Glasgow on the Bay. He is remembered by his grandchildren as an exceptional whistler, and as the one who took his grandson rattlesnake hunting and taught his granddaughter to jig for squid, clean and cook 'em up! Norm was an original!
Norman's mother, Lerona (Helms) Luke, died when he was not-yet two years old, due to complications during childbirth. His brother, Raymon Richard Luke, passed two months later. Norman was then raised by his maternal grandparents, William Wallace and Anna May (Evans) Helms in Elkton.
Norman dropped out of school and was working in the woods logging by the time he was 15 years old. He met Dortha Rinehart in Elkton and they were married in 1931 and shortly thereafter moved to North Bend. His daughter and son were born and raised here. He worked for a pulp mill in Empire, Oregon (Menasha) from 1932 until it shut down 40 years later. He then worked for International Paper in Gardiner, Oregon until his retirement.
During the war he was injured on the job and hospitalized for 75 days. He was the first civilian to receive penicillin and the doctors had to get permission from the government to give it to him.
Norm was an avid outdoors-man. He loved to fish, garden, and explore his natural world. He built some of the first dune-buggies in the 1930's and several of his own homes. He was always working on, building, and repairing something. A talented craftsman, he spent his retirement years over the wood-lathe in his shop, behind the house he and Dot built in Glasgow on the Bay. He is remembered by his grandchildren as an exceptional whistler, and as the one who took his grandson rattlesnake hunting and taught his granddaughter to jig for squid, clean and cook 'em up! Norm was an original!
Norman dropped out of school and was working in the woods logging by the time he was 15 years old. He met Dortha Rinehart in Elkton and they were married in 1931 and shortly thereafter moved to North Bend. His daughter and son were born and raised here. He worked for a pulp mill in Empire, Oregon (Menasha) from 1932 until it shut down 40 years later. He then worked for International Paper in Gardiner, Oregon until his retirement.
During the war he was injured on the job and hospitalized for 75 days. He was the first civilian to receive penicillin and the doctors had to get permission from the government to give it to him.
Norm was an avid outdoors-man. He loved to fish, garden, and explore his natural world. He built some of the first dune-buggies in the 1930's and several of his own homes. He was always working on, building, and repairing something. A talented craftsman, he spent his retirement years over the wood-lathe in his shop, behind the house he and Dot built in Glasgow on the Bay. He is remembered by his grandchildren as an exceptional whistler, and as the one who took his grandson rattlesnake hunting and taught his granddaughter to jig for squid, clean and cook 'em up! Norm was an original!
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