Lt. W. O. Noble, Burial, Franklin Parish

Submitted by: Betty Jean Weems Neathery

Jan. 2003



Source: Newspaper clipping from THE MONROE MORNING WORLD, 

undated, but probably June, 1949





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SOLON, WAR HERO

TO BE REBURIED

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Services for Lt. W. O. Noble, Legislative Member; Set on Thursday



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WINNSBORO, La. June 11 - The funeral services for First Lieutenant W.

O. Noble, the only Louisiana state legislator to die in action in World

War II, are scheduled for next Thursday at 11:30 a.m. in the Natchez

National Cemetery, Natchez, Miss.



According to information from Superintendent Wilford W. Horne, of the

cemetery grounds, the body will arrive Thursday morning at 9:45 over an

Illinois Central train and will be taken to the Foster Funeral Home 

where it will remain until time for the services.  There will be full

military rites at the grave by a special detachment from the 

Mississippi military district headquarters, Jackson, Miss.  Rev. J. P.

McKeithen, of Newellton, will officiate.



The lieutenant, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Noble, of Winnsboro, was born 

January 6, 1917, near Mangham, La.  He was a graduate of Mangham High

School and of Louisiana State University.  In 1940 he was elected to

the lower house of the state legislature from Richland parish, where he

was known as the "baby" of the legislature.  In May, 1942, he married

Miss Dorothy A. Mills, of New Orleans.  A daughter, Rose Adelea, was

born May 29, 1943, which was the month Lieutenant Noble received his

law degree from the university.  He was admitted to the Louisiana State

Bar Association in August; commissioned as second lieutenant in the

Army reserve, and was placed on active duty in August, 1943, leaving

for overseas in May, 1944.



He served with the first, third and seventh armies as replacement

officer and was given a battlefield promotion to first lieutenant, 

October 22, 1944.  He was attached to the 314 infantry regiment of

the 79th division when killed in action December 3, 1944, in the Battle

of the Bulge.



In January, 1945, Representative Noble was signally honored in an 

official ceremony in the state capitol when was unveiled a plaque to

his memory on the speaker's desk in the lower house.





The Bronze Star Cross was given posthumously and also the Purple Heart

Was awarded.



Besides his wife, Mrs. Wallace Percy, who now resides at Afton Villa,

famed plantation home and his six-year-old daughter, Rose, Lieutenant

Noble is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Noble, Winnsboro;

six sisters and three brothers, Mrs. J. A. Mercer of Mangham, Mrs. A.

C. Bowden of Oak Grove, Mrs. W. L. Acklen, Jr., of Baton Rouge, Misses

Bessie, Iona Jean and Elizabeth Noble, all of Winnsboro; Bill Noble,

Woody Noble, Winnsboro; and George Noble, Jr., L. S. U. student.



Lieutenant Noble was a member of the Mangham Methodist Church and 

Masonic lodge.  Any flowers sent should be sent to Superintendent Horne

of the National Cemetery, Vicksburg.





Submitter's Notes: W. O. Noble (his given name was the initials "W.

O.") was the son of George Wesley Noble and Rose Elizabeth Roberson 

Noble.  He was the grandson of James Runnells Nobles and Elizabeth

Dorcas Crawford Nobles and of Billy Roberson and Mollie Byrd Roberson.