Norman Dale Ellenberger

It was years before I learned of Coach Norm´s passing and it now seems superfluous to add a comment here, but he was someone special to me and in my life, so better late than never. I first met coach when Bob King was still the head coach at UNM. I was lucky enough to go to Coach King´s summer basketball camps at Lake Vallecito in Colorado when I had just finished 7th grade. I was a gangly, awkward kid in whom Coach Ellenberger saw something. I went to that camp for 5 years. After Coach King...

Found this photo from around '97 of Norm. He was always in motion.

I knew Norm during my last years in Bloomington , Indiana. He was an energetic outgoing and thoughtful man who was liked by so many.He always found time to talk to those who stopped to say " Hey Norm !".I am glad he was in a place he loved and with the people he cherished. He is surely missed even today . . . goodbye Norm, you were a treasure.

I met Norm when he was an assistant to Bob Knight at Indiana U. I fished with him on many occasions in British Colombia & on the Sutton River in Ontario. He was a great flyfisherman and cook in the field. I tied fly fishing baits for him and Coach Knight. He named one of my grasshopper baits, "The Terminator". I'm going to miss him

I graduated from New Haven in 1965, as did my sister Marilyn in 1963 and sister Brenda in 1967. I still have my high school yearbooks with Coach Ellenbergers'
pictures as assistant football and baseball coach. I have many fond memories of the basketball team and still remember the names of many of the players who were under the tutelage of Coach. Truly he died doing what he was born to do!

My prayers are with the family at this time of sorrow. I was a cousin to Norm. We had lots of memories over the early years. Love to all.
Sue Turner/Garver-Ft. Wayne, IN

Storming Norman was truly a class act! He positively impacted many people mostly in their youth. Norm will be fondly remembered by many people!

Many great memories of Coach Ellenberger from NHHS of 50 years ago. I wonder if his Mich cabin is the same one he invited us to for a day of fishing one summer. He was pouring a new concrete floor for a new room in the cabin and it started to rain. He and his dad had to shovel the still wet cement out an open window so the rain wouldn't spoil it. I'm he didn't find it funny at the time, but later it was a good story he enjoyed telling.

Norm Ellenberger was a friendly, professional coach and outstanding athlete. He was the champion of the Ellenberger heritage. He loved fishing and had unlimited success in all his endeavors. His father Dale Ellenberger was an original partner in the Ellenberger Brothers Auctioneer firm that has enjoyed 90 years of successful business in northeast Indiana and is in it's 3rd generation of family. Sincerely, Kenneth Ellenberger Cousin of Norm and President of Ellenberger Brothers Auctioneers