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- Garden City Telegram
December 9, 1949
Mrs. Elodie Norris Haskell, a Garden City Pioneer who endeared herself to people of all ages for her ready wit, her tolerance, and her ferocious loyalty to family and friends, died at her home, 613 Eleventh Street, at 7:30 a.m. today. She had been ill for approximately a year.
Mrs. Haskell came to Garden City in 1886, only a few years after the town was founded, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Norris and family. Her father and her uncle, Hamer Norris, published the Garden City Herald, one of the early day local newspapers.
Mrs. Haskell was born in Batavia, O., the daughter of Shepard G. and Mary Brunaugh Norris. The Norris family moved to Albuquerque, N.M., when she was a baby. Mrs. Haskell attended the Garden City schools and the University of Kansas.
She was married in 1902 to Major John Jarvis Haskell, Major Haskell died in 1931. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Joyce Braddock of this city and Mrs. Jacqueline Corzine of Kansas City, Mo.; four grandchildren, Betsey and Bim Braddock of this city, and Carolyn and John Corzine of Kansas City; one brother, Guy D. Norris of this city; and a niece and nephew, Mrs. Louis Kampschroeder and Gurney Norris of this city.
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