Norman Victor Bramblett

Norman Victor Bramblett was born on April 16, 1937, in Longworth, (West) Texas, and passed away after a 14 month battle with Leukemia (AML). He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Marie Tabash Bramblett, and his two daughters, Barbara Christine Bramblett and Michelle Alexandra Bramblett. In his youth, Norman attended elementary school in Sweetwater, Texas. During the 4th grade, he was already playing basketball and loving it. Because of the depression and the lack of jobs, his parents moved the family first to Nokomis, Illinois, and afterwards to Greensburg, Indiana, where he attended high school and excelled in basketball and football. He also was President of The Class of 55’ where his teammates and classmates embraced him for his sportsmanship and easy ways of being. When Norman finished high school, he received a basketball scholarship to Valparaiso University. He attended Valparaiso for one semester only to decide to enlist in the army. He was sent to Bad Kissingen, Germany, where as a young man he enjoyed his army duties, playing basketball, and traveling around Europe. When he returned to the USA, he received a basketball scholarship to Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. He graduated from Tulane with a degree in Electrical Engineering. Afterwards he went to New York to work for IBM. IBM gave him extensive training as a computer programmer and subsequently he was assigned to Naval Intelligence in Jacksonville, Florida, Bethesda, Maryland, and Maine, before being assigned to work at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Some time afterwards, Norman Victor Bramblett was transferred to NASA in Clear Lake City, Texas, late 1965, where he remained until 1969. Afterwards, he became a self-employed programmer specializing in seismic software in Houston, Texas. Norman was well known by many of the field’s contemporaries in the Houston area. He was patriotic, American and Texan flags swayed in the wind at his home. Norman also loved animals and the outdoors. Later in life, he was happiest planning, designing, and building the red barn at his daughter’s ranch which he loved. At 81 years of age he wrote a short novel, The Big Red Barn on Top of the Hill. Additionally he wrote a pamphlet, Look, He’s Walking, to help others to walk after cancer trauma, something he personally experienced at age 83 when he was unable to walk and yet taught himself to walk again. He was a charitable and unselfish man. He loved helping young athletes to succeed scholastically and athletically.

A private service will be held at Memorial Oaks Funeral Home. The family requests those who wish to express sympathy to consider making a donation to Norman’s favorite charity, The Wounded Warrior Project: www.woundedwarriorproject.org