Norma Lucille Kaiser was born in Knox County, Indiana on May 5, 1925 to Henry M Kaiser and Josephine Wetzel.  She was one of at least ten children born to the couple which include five boys and five girls, all but one living well into adulthood.  Her brothers included Joseph, Lawrence, Cletus (who died as an infant), Henry and Walter.  Norma was the third girl of the family: Anna, Mary, Norma, Marcella, and Dorothy.

The family made their living through farming.  In the 1920s they resided near Henry’s father’s farm outside of Vincennes, although by the mid-1930s, they had relocated to Haddon Township in Sullivan County.

Lawrence Wolfe, also of Haddon Township, enlisted in the Army in 1942 and served three years.  He married Norma on December 26, 1944 in Sullivan County, in the middle of his enlistment.  After the war, he supported Norma and their family as a truck driver.  They had five children, four of which grew to adulthood.

Lawrence and Norma continued living in in the Carlisle area until his death from cancer in 1987.  Norma lived another eleven years, a victim of heart disease on January 26, 1998 in Sullivan.

Norma Kaiser is a great-granddaughter of Michael Kaiser.

Norma was my half-2nd cousin, 1x removed on my mom’s side.

REFERENCES

• United States Census, 1930, 1940
• Indiana Marriages
• Indiana Birth Certificates
• Indiana Death Certificates
• Vincennes Sun-Commercial via Newspapers.com
• Find a Grave Website
• US Social Security Death Index
• US WWII Draft Cards
• US Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File
• US World War II Army Enlistment Records