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Ada Beall Norment

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Ada Beall Norment

Birth
Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Death
17 Oct 1953 (aged 67)
Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Burial
Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.3810678, Longitude: -76.726402
Plot
Maple Slope 425
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NORMENT, Ada Beall
Baltimore Sun, 19 Oct 1953:
FUNERAL SET FOR TEACHER
Miss Ada Norment Taught Science for 40 Years
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Miss Ada Beall Norment, physics teacher in the Baltimore public schools for 40 years, who died at her home on Wilmslow road Saturday morning.
The services are scheduled for 3 o'clock at the Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church, Read and Cathedral streets. Burial will be in Druid Ridge Cemetery. Miss Norment was born in Baltimore, the daughter of Dr. Richard Baxter Norment, a well-known physician, and Mrs. Baxter [sic].
Attended Goucher
Two of her brothers, both of whom have died within the last year, also became physicians. Miss Norment, after graduating from Western High School, studied physics at Goucher College.
She graduated in the class of 1909 and for a year after graduation was an assistant in the physics department at the college. From 1910 to 1913 she taught physics at the William Penn High School in Philadelphia, moving to Baltimore in the latter year.
At Eastern High School, Miss Norment taught chemistry and physics to thousands of girls, and in 1929 she was appointed head of the science department.
On Alumnae Board
She was a member of the board of directors of the Goucher College Alumnae Association, and of the board of directors of the Middle Atlantic States Science Teachers Association.
She also was an active member of Emmanuel Protestan [sic] Episcopal church, on behalf of which she used her knowledge of photography.
She is survived by two sisters, Miss Caroline Norment and Mrs. Robert Smith, both of Baltimore, and two brothers, Robert Norment, of New York city, and Clinton Norment, of Aruba, South America.
NORMENT, Ada Beall
Baltimore Sun, 19 Oct 1953:
FUNERAL SET FOR TEACHER
Miss Ada Norment Taught Science for 40 Years
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Miss Ada Beall Norment, physics teacher in the Baltimore public schools for 40 years, who died at her home on Wilmslow road Saturday morning.
The services are scheduled for 3 o'clock at the Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church, Read and Cathedral streets. Burial will be in Druid Ridge Cemetery. Miss Norment was born in Baltimore, the daughter of Dr. Richard Baxter Norment, a well-known physician, and Mrs. Baxter [sic].
Attended Goucher
Two of her brothers, both of whom have died within the last year, also became physicians. Miss Norment, after graduating from Western High School, studied physics at Goucher College.
She graduated in the class of 1909 and for a year after graduation was an assistant in the physics department at the college. From 1910 to 1913 she taught physics at the William Penn High School in Philadelphia, moving to Baltimore in the latter year.
At Eastern High School, Miss Norment taught chemistry and physics to thousands of girls, and in 1929 she was appointed head of the science department.
On Alumnae Board
She was a member of the board of directors of the Goucher College Alumnae Association, and of the board of directors of the Middle Atlantic States Science Teachers Association.
She also was an active member of Emmanuel Protestan [sic] Episcopal church, on behalf of which she used her knowledge of photography.
She is survived by two sisters, Miss Caroline Norment and Mrs. Robert Smith, both of Baltimore, and two brothers, Robert Norment, of New York city, and Clinton Norment, of Aruba, South America.


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