Monday Memories

Did I ever tell you About Robert Grant Norton of Flight 11? As part of the 9/11 tribute started by D. Challener Roe, I have been assigned Robert Grant Norton of Flight 11. I requested an individual from the DC Area, but was given Mr. Norton. When I started researching - what little I could find about him - I understood why I had him... Mr. Norton was on Flight 11 with his wife. They were traveling to California for her son's wedding. Mr. Norton was originally from Lubec Maine. He graduated from high school there, worked in a local factory making sardine cans and later served in World War II as a Seabee. After the war, he went to college on the GI Bill. He graduated from Franklin Tech in Boston with an engineering degree. He worked in Massachusetts for several years and lived in my hometown. He returned to Lubec to retire in the early 1980's. Mr. Norton was a deacon at the Congregational Church in Lubec. He was funloving and tried to inspire more humor in the sermons of Rev. Edwin Randall by giving him a book of quotes and malaprops by legendary New York Yankee catcher Yogi Berra. Mr. Norton was a very kind and thoughtful man. He is remembered as a soft spoken individual, a generous man both with time and talent, and a good neighbor. He was retired and was a young eighty-something at the time of his death. (His date of birth is unknown.) Mr. Norton looks very familiar to me. I think he may have been a member of my childhood church. LadyBug PS - My bibliography includes This Info and That Info and This site . Click here for the Monday Memories Code, Blogroll, Graphics, & Other Information View More Monday Memories Participants Trackbacks, pings, and comment links are accepted and encouraged!