Norma Jean (Roos) Dettmer of Syracuse, Otoe County, Nebraska United States was born on November 4, 1925 in Syracuse to Theodore "Ted" Wilhelm Roos and Fanny Meta (Janssen) Roos. She married Elmer Dietrich Friedrich Dettmer on October 12, 1944 in Syracuse, Otoe County, and they were married until Norma's death on January 14, 2005. She had a child Dee Ann (Dettmer) Young. Norma Dettmer was buried at Park Hill Cemetery in Syracuse, Otoe County.
The 1930's were a decade of severe stress: the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the rise of Nazism. But it was also the end of Prohibition, the beginning of the change of land management (poor farm ...