HABERSHAM COUNTY, GA - Obits  Grant, Noel

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OBITUARY / Clarkesville, Georgia / Thursday, September 19,
1935 /

Funeral Services For Captain Noel Grant Held Here Saturday -
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Funeral services were held at four o'clock Saturday
afternoon, September 14, for Captain Noel W. Grant,
prominent retired United States Naval officer, a former
resident of Clarkesville, who died Friday morning at the
Mountain View hotel, where he had come several days
previously, with his wife from their home near Clayton.  In
accord with his wishes the service was simple and lacking in
ostentation, being conducted by Rev. J. B. Smith, pastor of
the Methodist church and attended by a large gathering of
sympathetic friends and relatives of the deceased.  The
casket, draped with an American flag in recognition of his
service in the navy, was borne by a group of life-long
friends to its resting place beside his parents in the old
cemetery at Clarkesville.  Church and Son, funeral directors
were in charge of arrangements.  Captain Grant was born in
Clarkesville in 1878, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
William D. Grant, well-known residents of this community.
He spent his boyhood and received his education at
Clarkesville, and later attended North Georgia College, at
Dahlonega, being an honor student of the latter institution.
He represented Dahlonega in a state-wide oratorical contest
in 1902, winning first place over a number of other
contestants from leading Georgia colleges and universities. 
After his graduation from Dahlonega he received his
commission in the United States Navy, in which service he
remained for thirty-one years.  During his service he was
stationed on several of the lage [sic] vessels of the U.S.
Navy, and was assigned to Naval Stations both on the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts.  He was stationed at
Charleston, S.C., when he retired from the service in 1934
to his home near Clayton, Ga.  He and Mrs. Grant spent
several months here last spring, and have many friends who
learn with genuine regret of his passing.  He was a Mason
and a member of the Methodist church.  Captain Grant is
survived by his wife, Mrs. Rose Grant; by one sister, Mrs.
J. C. Hood, of Cornelia; by one brother, Mr. Asa Grant, of
Seneca, S.C.; and by a number of nieces and nephews.