Norma Barrow

Brief Life History of Norma

Funeral Services Held Wednesday For Rigby Nurse Nurse Electrocuted Norma Barrow Norma Barrow Electrocuted While in Bath Tub Norma Barrow, 24, daughter of Mrs. Jessie Olsen, was killed almost instantly at 3:50 p.m. , Saturday, when she was electrocuted in the bathtub of her home inmmediately north of Rigby. The bathroom was undergoing remodeling and as there was no heat in the room at the time an electric flare was placed in the bathroom. Wheather Miss Barrow placed her hand on the flare to move it away from the bath tub or put her hand on the reflector as she attempted to get out of the tub, is not known. Her sister, Lucille, was practicing on the piano in an adjoining room, at the time and heard Norma call. Lucille ran into the bathroom and immediately cut the electric current by pulling the plug. A physician was notified immediately and was at the home within a matter of minutes, and Mr. and Mrs. Olsen, who were uptown at the time were also informed of the accident. The physcian declared that death was almost instantaneous. Miss Barrow was a graduate of the Rigby high school, and also a graduate nurse from the St. Alphonsus training school at Boise, class of 1947, and took special trainin in Spokane, Wash. She was active in LDS church affairs and was a member of the Idaho Nurses Association. Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Jessie Olsen and her stepfather, R. H. Olsen, Rigby; four brothers and one sister, Wayne Barrow, serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Norway; Jay Barrow, Idaho Falls; Lynn Barrow, Aberdeen, and Donald and Lucille Barrow, Rigby; two stepbrothers, Marvin and Robert Olsen, Rigby, and her grandfather, J.D. Brown, Rigby. Newspaper Clipping, SOURCE: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89V3-4FWV?i=2180&cc=1876879

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Family Time Line

Robert Henry Olsen
1895–1981
Jessie Elizabeth Brown
1897–1983
Earl J Barrow
1922–2003
Lynn Merrill Barrow
1924–2011
Norma Barrow
1926–1950
Wayne Raymond Barrow
1928–2016
Donald Gene Barrow
1931–2023
Lucile Barrow
1934–2015

Sources (24)

  • Norma Barrow, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Norma, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"
  • Norma Barrow, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

World Events (8)

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1929

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

1935 · The FBI is Established

The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.

Name Meaning

English:

habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bearo, bearu ‘grove’ (dative bear(o)we, bearuwe) or Old English beorg, dative beorge (Middle English berwe, barwe) ‘mound, tumulus’, for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Shropshire, Suffolk, and Somerset, or a topographic name with the same meaning.

habitational name from Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, which is named with an unattested Celtic word, barr, here meaning ‘promontory’, + Old Norse ey ‘island’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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