Norma Barkemeier 

Note:

a) Was a witness at the wedding of Manuel Doria Jr and Minnie
Schulze, 6-19-1907

The Tribune-Sun; San Diego, CA; Monday, February 2, 1984; page 14
Under Capt. and Mrs. Bryan Await Visitors' Arrival by Eugenie Sedlock
FAMILY DINNER
The supreme queen of the Daughters of the Nile, Mrs. Norma Hoble, of Rockford, Ill., was welcomed upon her arrival here by her cousin, Mrs. Mina Doria, whose daughter, Mrs. Kerneil Bernardini, and her husband, Capt., Bernardini USMCR, gave a family dinner party that night in the Marine Depot Commissioned Officers' Mess in honor of the visitor.
Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. Glendon Conklin (he is potentate of Al Bahr Shrine Temple), Mr. and Mrs. Blake, Mr. and Mrs. Juan Doria, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Bernardini, Mrs. Andre Gomez, Mrs. Ruth Palmer, Frank Nottbusch. Jr., Mrs. Doria, the honoree and hosts.
Preceeding dinner, the group met in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Bernardini for cocktails, Mrs. Bernardini plans to accompany Mrs. Hoble, when she leaves Feb. 12 by plane from San Franciso for Honolulu. They will spend two weeks in the islands.


Rockford Register-Star; Rockford, IL; Thursday, July 11, 1968; page 16
Mrs. Hoble Guest at Silver Coffee
Mrs. Norma Hoble, past Supreme Queen of Daughters of the Nile, will be honored by members of Alabet Temple, Daughters of the Nile, at a Silver Coffee on Monday, July 15, in the Faust Hotel.
The affair will be held from 10 to 1130am in the Rockford B Room of the Faust. Mrs. Hoble is a resident of the hotel.
Mrs. Everette A. Berg is in charge of arrangements. Assisting her will be Alabet officers, Mrs. William Fuller, queen; Mmes. William O'Donnel, James Wright, Garfield Lyddon, Harold C. Larson and Reginald Olson.
Also assisting will be past queens, Mmes. Herbert Satre, Elizabeth Michaelsen and Clarence Yetter; and Mrs. Harry Ragnar.
Mrs. Hoble who reigned as supereme queen in 1947-48, is also a past queen of Alabet.


Register-Republic; Rockford, IL; Thursday, January 24, 1974; Page 10
Death Notices
Norma Hoble, Nile Women's leader, dies
Mrs. Norma F. Hoble, 80, Urbana, formerly of Rockford, the only Rockford woman ever named international head of the Daughters of the Nile order, died at 9:55pm Tuesday in Cole Hospital, Champaign.
She moved to Champaign-Urbana in 1969, after residing a few years in California, but earlier lived many years in Rockford.
Mrs. Hoble was a member and past queen of Rockford's Alabet Temple No. 31, Daughters of the Nile. She was installed as supreme queen of the order in the United States, Canada, and Hawaii in the late 1940s.
The order is made up of women who are wives, daughters, sisters, or mothers of the Shriners.
Survivors includ a son, Norman Fisher, Champaign; three grandchildren; a brother, Henry Barkemeier, St. Anne, Mo.; and a sister, Laura Barkemeier, Fairfield, Calif.
Services will be at 11am, Saturday in Fred C. Olson Mortuary, 1001 2nd Ave, with burial in Willwood Burial Park.