Norman Joseph Marlowe

12/05/2004

Norman Joseph Marlowe, 82, of 943 Massachusetts Ave. died yesterday at North Adams Commons after a short illness. Born in North Adams on March 30, 1922, son of Herman J. and Helen Josephine Devlin Marlowe, he was a 1941 graduate of the former St. Joseph's High School. An Army veteran of World War II, he served in the Army Signal Corps and trained at the American Telephone & Telegraph Carrier Repeater School and at the Radio School of LaSalle Institute in Los Angeles. He was a technical sergeant with Company B, 52nd Signal Battalion, in the Pacific theater, participating in the battles of New Guinea, Southern Philippines and Luzon. He was awarded several campaign medals. He was honorably discharged Dec. 31, 1945. Before the war, Mr. Marlowe worked in Meriden, Conn., setting up machines for field telephone production for the Russians and, after the war, began his electrician's apprenticeship program with the former Isbell Electric Co. A licensed electrician, he was employed by Williams College for 10 years and, later, worked for several companies, including DeMayo Electric and Rickert Electric, both of Williamstown, and the former Prime Tanning Co. Before his retirement in 1984, he was an electrician at the former Hunter Machine Co. for five years. Mr. Marlowe was a communicant of St. Francis' Church and a member of Frank R. Stiles Post 125 American Legion. He was also a third-degree knight in the North Adams Council and the Mount Greylock Council, Knights of Columbus. His wife, the former Ann Charlotte Jones, whom he married Oct. 26, 1946, in St. Francis' Church, died Oct. 28, 1996. He leaves a son, John P. Marlowe of North Adams; three daughters, Rita Campbell of Belchertown, Susan Myers of Phoenix and Sheila Silsby of Clarksburg, and five grandchildren. Another daughter, Mary Elizabeth Ellen Marlowe, died Sept. 22, 1997. FUNERAL NOTICE-- The funeral for Norman Marlowe, who died Dec 5, 2004, will be Thursday Dec. 9, at 10:15 at FLYNN & DAGNOLI-MONTAGNA HOME FOR FUNERALS, West Chapels, 521 West Main St., North Adams, followed by a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 11 at Our Lady of Mercy Church, 610 State Road, North Adams. Burial will follow in Southview Cemetery. Calling hours at the funeral home will be Wednesday, Dec. 8, from 6 to 8. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to North Adams Regional Hospital, Our Lady of Mercy Church or the St. Vincent de Paul Kitchen, all in care of the funeral home. Survivors include a daughter-in-law, Mary Marlowe; sons-in-law, Gene Campbell and Ross Myers, and five grandchildren, Joshua and Aaron Silsby, Sarah Marlowe, John P. Marlowe Jr. and Scott Campbell. He was predeceased by a sister, Geraldine Rita Molloy, in 1944 and by a son-in-law, J. Michael Silsby, on Oct. 19, 2001.

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