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Francis Toadvin Norman, known as Frank T. Norman (November 21, 1914 – November 20, 1994), was from 1958 to 1966 the mayor of the small city of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. From 1952 to 1958, Norman served on the Minden City Council as the then public safety commissioner under the since disbanded city commission form of government. He was also a high official in the Louisiana Masonic lodge. ==Background== Norman was born in Homer, the seat of nearby Claiborne Parish, to the physician Bertram Allen Norman (March 5, 1886 – December 6, 1949), and the former Pearl Toadvin (January 17, 1892 – May 4, 1941). Dr. Norman was a first lieutenant in the Louisiana Medical Corps in World War I.〔Earlene Mendenhall Lyle and Ann Mays Harlan, Minden Cemetery records, Minden, Louisiana〕 Frank Norman was reared in Minden and graduated in 1931 from Minden High School.〔Minden High School, ''Grig'' yearbook, 1930s〕 He attended Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, the seat of Lincoln Parish, but did not graduate. Norman was the first student to register at the new Ringling School of Art, a part of the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, where another Minden High School graduate, Ben Earl Looney, was a member of the founding faculty. Norman's enrollment at the Ringling school was mentioned in ''Time'' magazine. Norman was a first cousin of Minden optometrist Carter B. Norman (July 1, 1922–August 29, 2009), the son of Frank Norman's uncle, Justin Carter Norman, and the former Lillie Harris. Carter Norman graduated from the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee, and practiced in Minden for forty-five years. A United States Army infantryman, he was part of the World War II occupational forces in Japan. He was also a charter member of the Lakeview United Methodist Church in Minden. Frank Norman had two sisters, Sybil Edwina Norman (1919–1983), an office manager from Shreveport, and Ara Juanita Norman Leach (1917–2011) of Gainesville, Texas, a member of the Cooke County Democratic Executive Committee, who was a delegate to fourteen state Democratic conventions in Texas as well as the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ara Juanita Leach obituary )〕 In 1937, Norman married the former Mildred Bryant (born September 3, 1913), and the couple established permanent residence in 1945 near Victory Park at 901 Park Highway, where Mrs. Norman still resides. They had one daughter, Frankie Norman Tompkins (November 3, 1939 – May 23, 1975), a former teacher from Plain Dealing in Bossier Parish. As Frankie matured, her mother resumed her career as an employee of the Minden Sanitarium.〔"Mayor's Wife Praised in Publication", ''Minden Press'', June 22, 1959, p. 1〕 Frankie and her son, Norman Ray Tompkins (1960–1975), perished from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Bunkie in Avoyelles Parish south of Alexandria.〔http://www.mindenmemories.net; Thompkins obit, ''The Minden Press-Herald'', May 27, 1975〕 Frankie, the wife of Ennis Ray Tompkins (born c. 1934), also had a daughter, later Janet Tompkins Burke of Shreveport, who in turn gave birth to the Normans' two great-grandsons.〔Frank T. Norman obituary, ''The Minden Press-Herald'', November 22, 1994〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank T. Norman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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