Extracted from The Franklin Sun (Winnsboro, LA)
Thursday, October 7, 1954

Horace C. Norwood Passes Away Tuesday

Funeral services were held for Horace Clenton Norwood, 49 years old, of Winnsboro route three Wednesday afternoon, October 6, in the First Baptist church of Gilbert. The Rev. Jimmie Crowe, pastor of the First Baptist church of Gilbert, officiated.

Interment for Mr. Norwood, who died Tuesday afternoon in a Monroe hospital, was in the Oakley cemetery near Gilbert.

Mr. Norwood leaves: his wife, Mrs. Annie Segers Norwood, Winnsboro; three sons, Herman Crawford Norwood, Leo Norwood and Allen Theodore Norwood, all of Winnsboro; a daughter, Mrs. C. C. Smith of Winnsboro; his mother, Mrs. Matilda Norwood of Kilbourne; two brothers, Asa Norwood of Winnsboro and Lawrence Lee Norwood, Gilbert; and three grandchildren.