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LONGTIME West
Vancouver resident Len
Norris died Tuesday in
Langley Memorial
Hospital duc to compli-
cations arising from
surgery. He was 83.

As editorial cartoonist with
the Vancounze Sun for 38
years, his social commentary

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frequently focused on the
characters who peopled the
area he had called home since
the *50s,

“He was as much a founder
of West Vancouver as John
Lawson or Francis Wilkiam
Caulfeild,” said News colum-
nist Trevor Lautens, who
knew Norris for 34 years. “He
founded this wonderful myth

of West Vancouver and helped
create the character of the
tae through his drawing.”

Faithful readers came to know
his, residents of Amblesnide
and Tiddlycove: the large
women with pearls, having tea
in their homes on the steep
mountain slopes oblivious. to
the PGE train rumbling
through their backyards; and

the angry, pompous figure of
Rodney, with his mustache
and shaking jowls.

Norris retired from The
Sun in °88. Fellow Vancouver
Sun cartoonist Roy Peterson
remembers Norris as very
much a West Vancouver per-
soa. “What he really enjoyed
was the village atmosphere,”
said Peterson,

Friday, August 15, 1997 -- North Shore News — 11

sLoss of cartoonist Len Norris lamented

An avid golfer who. cele-
brated his 80th birthday at
Capilano Golf-and Country
Club, Norris played the man-
dolin and enjoyed his wift’s
roast beef, Norris is survived
by his wife Marguerite; suns
Stephen and John; his brother
Stan; five grandchildren and
five great-guandchildren.

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