More About Us Norwood’s
There were six of us. Margaret “Norwood”
Henry, Jimmie “Norwood” Gibbs, Rachel “Norwood” Coody, Jack Norwood, Joe
Norwood and Gene Norwood. We all grew up in Newton County near Porterdale, Georgia.
Our farther, John Virgil Norwood, worked for Bibb Manufacturing Company in
Porterdale and at one time ran a small dairy. Our Mother, Gordie Mae “Burch”
Norwood. Worked for just a very short time for the Bibb. She stayed home and
raised us kids, which was a full time job if you knew us. We had a wonderful
life as kids. There are lots of good memories in our lifetime. One I remember
well was sitting on the back porch and churning butter and also helping my
daddy feed the cows. We all had to help get wood for our wood-burning stove.
Jimmie has been working on mother’s
family “Burch & Hooper” genealogy for many years. She had done most of the
work before she got me involved.
The
Connection between “Burch and Hooper” is our grandmother “Mary Lula Hooper”
married our grandfather “Marion Adolphus Burch”
As for me, “Joe”, I was born January 24,
1943 at 2:15 am in the Porterdale Hospital by Doctor J. B. Mitchell. I was 21
inches long and weighed 8.14 oz. I attended Porterdale
School through the 8th grade and Newton County High School in
Covington, Georgia where I graduated in 1961. I worked in the machine shop for
Bibb Manufacturing Company for several years. After leaving the Bibb I went to
work with an automatic sprinkler company where I did pipe welding. I then
returned to the Bibb after about five years and worked as a loom fixer. In 1983
I took a job with Vantage Products Corporation in Conyers, Georgia as a mold
repairman. Vantage was a plastic molding company. While there I became the supervisor
of the mold shop. Later I became their mold designer and did the entire new
product mold design. When the company bought a computer operated milling
machine I took the job of programming it to machine the new molds. In 2002 one
of the company’s competitors bought the company and in September 2003 closed it
down. Being out of a job my sister Jimmie got me started on the genealogy of
mother’s family. We together have managed to put what we have on this web site.
We are continuing the research on both families. We hope that every one will
enjoy what we have. If anyone has anything to add please feel free to email me
with what you have. If you have a question please email me. mailto:[email protected]