Biographies and Obituaries
In loving memory
Norma Louise Smith Sidebottom
21 May 1933 - 22 Dec 2001
Norma Sidebottom, 68, died unexpectedly at 2:20PM Saturday at Daviess County Community Hospital. The funeral service will be at 10:30AM Thursday at Poindexter & McClure Funeral Home, with Bros. Jim Nabos, Joe Carter, and Chuck Harrington officiating. Burial will be in Plainville Cemetery with military graveside rites by the Washington American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Friends may call from 2PM to 8PM Wednesday. Born May 21, 1933, in Daviess County, she was the daughter of Ralph and Eva Ethel (Parham) Smith. Her mother is deceased. Her husband, James Weddell Sidebottom whom she married on June 3, 1961, died in 1974. One sister, Mary Susan Smith, is also deceased. A lifelong Daviess County resident, she served in the Army in Tokyo for two years. She worked for Head Start for several years and was in a Head Start movie "Items Kids Can Keep". She attended the Voice of Believers and Full Gospel Center and was a volunteer with R.S.V.P. Survivors include: her father and stepmother, Ralph and Treva Smith of Kannapolis, NC; four sons, Dennis Sidebottom, James Sidebottom, Jerry Sidebottom, and Terry Sidebottom, all of Washington; two daughters, Candice Parker of Monroe City and Tina Kelley of Washington; one sister, Janice Faye Hagmeier of Phoenix, AZ; three brothers, Bill Smith of Ft. Wayne, Larry Smith of Kannapolis, and R.H. Smith of Marietta, GA; and 22 grandchildren.
The funeral for Norma Sidebottom was at 10:30AM Thursday at Poindexter & McClure Funeral Home with Bros. Jim Nabos and Joe Carter officiating. Burial was in Plainville Cemetery with military gravesite rites by the Washington American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Pallbearers were: Gil Sidebottom, Zac Sidebottom, Benjamin Parker, Elijah Parker, Paul Barlow, Larry Smith, Bill Smith, and R.H. Smith. Honorary pallbearers were: Barry Parker, Mike Pettigrew, Cory Lankford, and Kip Kelley. American Legion-VFW honor guard participants were: Norman Hoover, Clarence Mandabach, Oliver Coers, George Talley, Carl Fox, Ralph Fox, Billie Stader, James R. Healy, James F. Healy, Carmin Schnarr, John E. Chestnut, Jack Anderson, Charles Hamm, J.R. Risley, and C.B. Burgess.
Contributed by: Janice Smith Hagmeier