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From the Bizarre Crime to the Heroic Death of Norman J. Hollis

AI generated image depicting a phonograph player playing a record in the Dover, Ohio police station in 1942. (Source: Microsoft Designer)

A Dover man, torn by rejection, planned a horrible crime only to have it lead to his heroic death. Born in 1924, Norman James Hollis (1924-1944) was the second child of Floyd James Hollis (1900-1983) and Bessie Lovett (1906-1970), who married four years earlier in Wayne County, Tennessee. Around the time of Norman’s birth, theContinue reading “From the Bizarre Crime to the Heroic Death of Norman J. Hollis”