Once again, this information, along with most of the pictures, was furnished us by David and Arleta Longenecker. Their mother, Lesta Huston Longenecker had begun the effort of collection and saving and they have continued that effort.
Sherbern Sherwood Huston
Helen Isadore Briggs
Wedding picture, October 5, 1904
He became known as "Bernie" and she was called "Peg"
Children:
Hazel Deane 16 June 1902 Quincy, Illinois
Helen Lesta 16 October 1905 Spaulding, Iowa
Bernice Naomi 16 March 1909 Kansas City, Missouri
Veda Irene 25 March 1912 Bagley, Iowa
Leah Mae 24 March 1914 Bagley, Iowa
Norman Earl 24 January 1919 Bagley, Iowa
(Leah Mae died at an early age of "Acute Milliary Tuberculosis")
Index
History
History II
C. F. Schwanke
H. S. Gillespie
J. M. Bennett
O, F. Schwanke
C. E. Gillespie
Lois & Bill
Carl & Les
Ray & Pat
Alan & Sharon
Pete & Sharon
The Palmers
Dan & Brandy
Curt & Jenny
Jesse & Diana
Helen Isadore Huston & her sister Minnie with their daughters.
"Doc" Huston & his Yorkshire boar, "Famos" (7' long)
Doc Huston & son, Norman Earl
Bernie
Peg
The pictures were taken in 1918. The family was great on nicknames and he was
known as Bernie while she was stuck with the monicker, Peg.
Three Briggs sisters, about 1918 - 1920
Minnie, Helen, Molly
Helen Isadore Huston died August 13, 1928 at Bagley, Iowa and was buried in
Dodge Center Cemetery, near there. Mother always referred to her as "Mother Helen".
This picture would appear to have been taken about 1925 or 1926 since Norman was born in 1919. It is one of the very best father/son portraits I have ever seen.
They both appear supremely confident and self-assured as if the world was turning in their direction.
Sherbern Sherwood Huston married Bertha M. Patterson
August 5, 1933 at Davenport, Iowa
She was given the nickname "Bodie"
Lawton Engelhart & Veda Huston
Married September 7, 1937
They lived at Rochester, NY and Lawton
worked for Kodak.
Lesta, Aunt Mollie, Naomi, back during the 1930's
Naomi (Dinkus) with Bernie in 1940 probably shortly before he moved from Davenport, Iowa to Oregon for health reasons. Naomi moved to Los Angeles about that time. I visited her there when I was in San Diego in the Marines.
She, Veda and Marybelle also visited me in San Diego while I was in quarantine following the end of the war, 1945.
Everett Longenecker, George Byrns, Orin Schwanke, Wilbur Byrns
July 11, 1937, Manilla, Iowa
David Longenecker, Bill Schwanke, Robert Byrns, Robert Schwanke
July 11, 1937, at Manilla
Sherbern Sherwood Huston retired from his work representing Norden Laboratories and moved to Molalla, Oregon due to failing health in November 1941. In November 1943 he moved from Molalla to Salem, Oregon. On February 26, 1944 he was taken to Deaconess Hospital in Salem for observation and died very unexpectedly. His widow, Bertha M. Huston died several years later.
MaryBelle & Lou Deane, 1943, at the Schwanke residence near Sweeny, Texas
Sorry, I have no pictures of Norman beyond those above when he was quite small. He married MaryBelle Felton, April 27, 1943, while he was in the Navy.
I will include the following from his funeral program of June 12, 1999.
Norman Earl Huston
"I'm only interested in truth, not in being right."
Norm was born in Jefferson, Iowa. He was a good son and brother and he was a loving husband, father and grandfather. He refereed Little League games, taught songs and sports to his children, took his family camping and touring the country, etc. He opened his home to many people over the years. George Luk (Hong Kong), Grace S'ng (Singapore), Rolf Weber (Switzerland), the Loke Kong Meng Family (Toronto) and many others.
He was a Levi Straus Scholar, received his A.B. from the University of California. He worked on the Manhattan Project in Berkeley, CA and Oak Ridge, TN. During WWII he was a Naval Radar Flight Officer.
Norm was a physicist, a Professor of Nuclear Engineering at ther University of Wisconsin. He enjoyed his profession and found it challenging and rewarding. He was involved in many foreign programs and conferences and enjoyed a well earned international reputation. He belonged to several professional and fraternal societies. He was particularly interested in educational pursuits and a scholarship has been established in his name with the Instrument Society of America of which he was president at one time.
The following was copied from "Who's Who In America"
