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Sent by Marion Johnson. Norman Captian in Inf. wounded WW2.
Norman Ray Hiatt, was graduated from Darlington High School. Went to
Marion, Indiana for a short while with Glenn. Came home and went into the Army
when the National Guard was converted to army in 1941.
Went to Ft. Benning, Ga. to officer training school and served at various
army post in the U.S. was shipped over seas and was wounded at a little beach
north of Normandy Beach Sept 15, 1944 as soon as he landed.
An 88 milameter mortar shell landed close to him filled him with shrapnel -
mangled his left leg destroying nerves, muscles, etc. Also mangeld on of his
fingers, which is now badly scarred.
He was a patient, both as an inpatient and out patient at the Battle Creek,
Michigan Amputee Hospital until the first part of 1947. They saved his leg but
it has always given him trouble. During the stay at the hospital he was
commissioned as a Captain.
Came home for awhile went to Florida for awhile and came back to Darlingotn
to state his son to school. Later helped his father in the appliance store and
moved to Ocala, Florida in 1976.
Married Kathryn (Kay) Sprecher 11-7- 1945 while he was at Hosptial at
Battle Creek. She was his nurse.
Darlington Man Suffers Wounds
1st. Lieut. Norman R. Hiatt Wounded in Action in France Sept. 15
Darlington, Oct 4, Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Hiatt have received a telegram
from the Department of War, notifying them that their son, First Lieutenant
Norman R. Hiatt, was seriously wounded in action in France on Sept. 15 and is
now in a hosptial in England.
Last Thursday, Mr. and Mrs. Hiatt had a letter from a nurse in the
hospital, where their son is a patient, saying he was confined there on account
of his wounds and was not able to write. Her letter was written at his
request, she said, in the hope that his parents would recieve it before a
telegram came from the War department.
The letter from the nurse, dated Sept 19, did not reveal the nature of the
seriousness of his wounds. It arrived five days prior to the delivery of the
telegram.
Lieut. Hiatt entered the service in January 1941, as a corporal with
Company E. of the Indiana National Guard Company of Darlington at the time the
Guard was federalized. Transferred to officers school early in 1942, he was
commissioned Second Lieutenant at Fort Benning, in Georgia.
Sent to Camp Atterbury late in 1942, Lieut Hiatt was injured in a wreck in
January 1943, and was hospitalized for a period of three or four months before
he was returned to active duty. He served for a while in California, in
anintfantry camp, before being sent to Fort Meade, Maryland, where he completed
his training for overseas duty. He left for England from Fort Meade two months
ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Hiatt have another son and a son-in-law who are overseas.
The son, Sgt. Donald R. Hiatt in the service since March, 1943, has been
overseas a year. he is now somewhere in France with the ground crew of an
airplace squadron.
The son in law, Pfc. Willard Breaks, is now somewhere in Bellgium, with an
infantry division. Entering the service two years ago, he went to England in
the autumn of 1943. He went into France with the D. Day invasion and just
recently wrote his parents that he had been sent into Belgium. He is the sonof
Mrs. Mel Breaks of Darlington. His wife Miss Lela Kirk, before the marriage
the daughter of Mrs. Hiatt.
Norman Hiatt Candidate for County Treasure
Norman L. Hiatt, well known Darlington young man, has announced that he
will be a condicate for the Republican nomination of county treasurer in the
May primary election.
Hiatt, who is known to his friends as "Red" is proprietor of an appliance
store here where he always has lived.
A memver of the National Guard Unit, he was inducted into federal service in
January of 1941, and served until the close of the war. Inducted as a private
he was discharged as a captian.
While serving in the European theater he was wounded in action. He is a
member of Darlington American Legion Post and the Congregational Christian
Church.
Hiatt is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Hiatt, he is married to a former
Army Nurse and they have a son.
If nominated and elected Mr. Hiatt believes he will be able to give a
businesslike adminstration of the office.

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Sent by John H. Hiatt

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Sent by Sherry Mitchell
Was adopted.

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HH book Volume I. See Indiana Quaker Records, Vol IV, pg. 101
Oliver, (Hiatt) b. 1-29-1840
Ellen P. b. 9- 2-1841
CH:
Samuel Grayson b. 3- 7-1866 d. 10-4-1893
George E. b. 4-30-1870
Martha E. b. 7-17-1872
Cassius F. b. 6-2-1874
William E. b. 7-28-1876
Olive b. 11-12-1877
Edith F. b. 5-2-1880
Olin T. b. 12-15-1882
Margie S. b. 8-20-1884