Norman Niven
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| Spouse | Irene Niven | |||
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Norman Niven was married to Irene and had two children, a boy Phil and daughter Judith and lived in Arvada Center. He worked at the Willow Lake Farm Center in the office as a salesman and occasionally delivered fertilizer by truck. There was an auto accident that killed their son Phil and partially paralyzed Judy. Unlike his wife, Norm encourages his daughter to do as much as she thinks she is able to do.
Some time after Judy marries Ken Sorensen, Norm retired and left his wife to retreat into a life as a hermit in a hunter's cabin on the far side of Turtle Hill, outside of Spearfish Lake. We encounter Norm in 1993, when Judy gets a dogsled ride with Josh Archer to visit her dad.RM9
Later we find that by 1999 Norm is leading some of the dogsled adventure tours for Josh and Tiffany.FtS3 By then he is described as "a bookish near-hermit who lived in the woods out behind Turtle Hill, but his big gray beard and general outdoor savvy made him seem like a virtual sourdough, rather than the retired feed, grain and fertilizer salesman he really was. The clients really loved the curmudgeonly 'old-timer' taking them on trips, filling them full of stories of the back woods around the campfire"FtS8
