Norman Tuttle Chariton

Services for Norman Tuttle, 68, of Chariton were held 10 a.m. Monday, April 18, at Pierschbacher Funeral Home, 914 Roland Ave., in Chariton. Interment was in Chariton Cemetery. Family received friends on Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials are requested to Chariton Saddle Club or First United Methodist Church in Chariton. Online condolences may be shared at www.pierschbacherfuneralhome.com.

Norman Ray Tuttle was born in Des Moines on March 9, 1948, to Melvin and Mildred Lohr Tuttle. He lived on the family farm until he was 12 years old. The family then moved to town. While he lived in town he kept his ponies at his friend Dave Allbee’s. They delivered papers and cleared snow with the ponies. He learned at a very young age the art of pulling with the ponies and horses. Norm was always athletic and strong. He wrestled only his junior and senior years and went to state his senior year. He was also an excellent football player. He graduated from Chariton High School in 1966.

Norm was an old time farm kid, and learned to do anything and everything that needed done on the farm. He was a cowboy, a farmer, a ferrier and all-around hard worker. He drove for Etter Livestock and worked at the Russell Sale barn for many years. He loved to help friends and neighbors round up cattle.

He loved pony and draft horse pulling and continued on the family tradition being the middle of three generations of his family to pull and win at the Iowa State Fair. Norm was a great cowboy and loved to rodeo. He was a champion team roper and was well known in the horse and rodeo families. He gave of his time and belonged to the Iowa Pony Pullers Association, Pony Express, Iowa Rodeo Cowboy Association and Chariton Saddle Club.

Norm will be remembered as being handsome, hardworking, strong, brutally honest, had a great sense of humor and was very ornery. His family will remember this as well as his great heart and the love he had for his family. He loved going to his children’s and grandchildren’s ball games, other activities and any event where they were able to be together.

Norman passed April 14, 2016, at the Legacy Lodge in Chariton. His father Melvin Tuttle and brother-in-law Mac McWhorter preceded him in death.

Surviving are his mother Mildred Tuttle Hook; his friend of 24 years, Rosemary Swainey; his son, David (Shay Dutton) Tuttle and their children, Abby, Trent, Christy, Payton, Leah and Abigail; his daughter, Denise (Philip) Storm and their children, Skyler, Eric and Brandon; Rosemary’s daughter, Theresa Swainey and her daughter Kelsey (Jordan); Rosemary’s son, Michael (Michelle) Swainey and their children, Jesse, Danielle, Sara and Kane. Also surviving are six great-grandchildren, Grayson, Bently, Bentley, Tucker, Carter and Ella; his sister Nancy McWhorter; niece Kelli McWhorter; along with many relatives and friends.