NORMANE LAMONT BENNETT WAS BORN NOVEMBER 5, 1986, IN ST. LOUIS, MO TO NORMAN BENNETT AND MARY L. BARNETT. NORMAN WAS THE FIRST BORN TO NORMAN AND THE THIRD BORN TO MARY.

NORMANE ALSO KNOWN AS BINO, RECEIVED HIS EDUCATION THROUGH ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, WHERE HE STARTED HIS LOVE FOR SPORTS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL BASKETBALL WITH THE ENCOURAGMENT OF HIS MENTOR MR.BRYANT. THAT LOVE CONTINUED THROUGH OUT HIGH SCHOOL WITH FOOTBALL AND BASEBALL WHERE HE WAS A WELL LIKED OUTGOING AND RESPECTFUL STUDENT. HE THAN WENT ON TO ATTEND LINCOLN UNIVERSITY IN JEFFERSON CITY, MO AND MISSOURI WESTERN STATE IN ST. JOSEPH, MO.

NORMANE WAS A GENTLE SOUL WHO ADORE HIS TWO NIECES, MINETTA AND AKHSIA AND FOUR NEPHEWS, PERRY, JAMAR, JAMES III, AND REGINALD IV. NORMANE WAS ALWAYS READY TO SHARE HIS INFECTIOUS SMILE WITH THOSE AROUND HIM. HE LOVED AND LIVED LIFE TO THE FULLEST AND WHEN AROUND HIM YOU COULDN'T HELP BUT DO THE SAME.