Kathi Norris
Kathleen Norris Stark Caruso, professionally known as Kathi Norris (June 1, 1919 – June 15, 2005) was an American writer and television presenter. Career Norris's father was a woodworker and cabinetmaker, and also a musician, playing the French horn and the viola in the Newark Symphony Orchestra. She had an older sister, Helen, who became a schoolteacher, and three older brothers, Carl, Donald, and Lowell Norris. The family were Presbyterians.<ref>Andrew Devore Boyd, Joseph Boyd, Sr. (died 1799) of Prince George's County, Maryland, and his family through six generations' (2010), p. 34: '221. Lena A. Loyd'</ref> Kathi Norris became an advertising executive at W. R. Grace in Chicago and a radio writer, marrying Wilbur Stark in 1945. She hosted the first daytime talk show on WABD, the DuMont Television Network flagship TV station in New York City. The show was known by the alternate titles Kathi Norris' Television Shopper, TV Shopper , and Your Television Shopper, which ran on DuMont from November 1, 1948 to December 1, 1950, and as The Kathi Norris Show which ran from 1950 to 1955 on DuMont, and on ABC from 1955 to 1957. When her father died in 1957, she was living in Bronxville, New