Extracted from The Ruston Daily Leader (Ruston, LA)
Monday, August 10, 1970

Gunshot Kills Ruston Man

Funeral services were held in Jena at 2 p.m. today for Travis L. Norman, 36, of 1305 S. Vienna in Ruston. Norman died about 5 a.m. Saturday in a Ferriday hospital, after being shot while visiting a club near Ferriday Friday night.

A Ferriday man is being held in Concordia parish jail on charges filed after the incident. An investigation is still being conducted. According to information received here, Norman, his wife, and another couple were at the club late Friday night, when a man began an argument with the Normans' companion. They started to leave, and a fight ensued. In the disturbance, a shot was fired from a .38 caliber pistol, hitting Norman in the head. He was taken to Ferriday hospital, where he died about three hours later.

Norman was a native of Jena, and had been a resident of Ruston for the past years when he became Ruston for the past 14 years operator by the Ruston Daily Leader. He worked at the Leader until last August, serving as shop foreman, and later as commercial printing department manager. Last October, he became a partner in M & M Printing Co., and sold that interest in May of this year. At the time of his death, he was employed in the production department of the Alexandria Daily Town Talk.

Norman is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mavis Norman, two daughters, Teresa and Janelle, a son, Tracy, all of Ruston; a brother, Abner Norman; two sisters, Mrs. Onita Perkins, and Ms. Avis Henson, all of Ruston, his mother, Mrs. Gladys Norman of Jena, and his father, Lloyd Norman of Monroe.