Norten Fred
Dablemont of Pittsburg, Missouri, passed away on Wednesday, February 13 at
Mercy hospital in Springfield Missouri.
He is survived by his wife Velma, a brother, Bryce Dablemont, and a
sister, Izora Krone, both from northwest Arkansas. He is also survived by his
daughter Caroline Brooks, and grandsons James and David Brooks, all residing in
San Antonio Texas.

Norten Dablemont
was born October 26, 1923 on the Big Piney River near Houston, Missouri, but
lived most of his adult life on Beaver Lake near Rogers Arkansas, where he
worked as a fishing guide and operated his own auto body shop. He moved to Pomme de Terre Lake, near
Pittsburg, Missouri in 1998, and continued to guide fishermen on the Pomme de
Terre River and the Niangua River.

He was a World
War II veteran, a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne “Screamin’
Eagles” division in Europe, serving in Holland, Belgium, Austria and
France. He was one of the paratroopers
who dug in at Bastogne Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge and held the Germans
for ten days in the snow and cold, awaiting the advance of General Patton’s
tanks and troops, and also one of the paratroopers who returned the Lippizanner
Stallions to Austria at the end of the war. He was one of a small number of 101st
Airborne Paratroopers marching in the Victory Day parade in New York City in
1946.

A Visitation
service will be held at Pitts Chapel in Bolivar, MO, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on
Thursday evening February 21. His
funeral will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, February 22, at the Mt. Olive
Baptist Church north of Bolivar, Missouri with Reverend Danny Vance presiding.
A graveside service will be held at 3:30 that afternoon at the Oak Hill
cemetery north of Houston, Missouri, only a few miles from the Big Piney River
where he spent his youth, near the graves of his parents, as he requested.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Pitts
Chapel Bolivar, MO.