Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Nagler, Noble 1937
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Lake Odessa Wave, 21 Jan 1937

Noble Nagler Dies Suddenly in West

Funeral for Former Local Athlete Held at Mitchell, S.D., Sunday.  Was 33 years 
Old.

The Grand Rapids Herald, Wednesday morning, carried the shocking news to many 
Lake Odessa people of the sudden death at Mitchell, S.D., of Noble Nagler, 33, 
youngest son of Rev. August F. Nagler, who was pastor of Central Methodist 
church here from 1919 to 1922.

According to the news account, Noble was found unconscious in his office at 
Mitchell college, where he held a professorship, and died before a doctor could 
reach him.  The funeral services were held Sunday at Mitchell.  He is survived 
by his aged father and a brother Reed at Evart, Mich.; and three sisters, Eula 
at Evanston, Ill., Melva at Hammond, Ind., and Etha, a missionary in China.

When Noble lived here with his parents he was active in Sunday school, church 
and high school work and was especially popular in the younger set.  He was a 
cornetist of ability and both played and sang in the church choirs.  Playing 
his first football in the fall of 1919 he was a member of the Lake Odessa high 
school team that year that finished the season without being scored on, its 
last game being with the Junior college team from Grand Rapids which it won by 
a large score.  The squad that season, under the coaching of Ervin E. Howard 
piled up the impressive total of 375 points.

In later years the athletes in that group formed a club they call Ervie’s 
Athletic club which meets for an annual banquet on Thanksgiving eve and Noble 
was a member of that organization.

In the spring of 1920 he caught on the high school base ball team, and the next 
spring pitched the team to the county championship.  He graduated from the 
local school in June of 1921.  Matriculating at Albion college he graduated in 
1925 after starring three years as a pitcher on the baseball team.  He was a 
member of Alpha Tau Omega, national college fraternity, and active in several 
campus organizations.

The next year he was an instructor in the Hastings public schools and also 
director of band and orchestra music there.  Later he was assistant pastor and 
leader in the young people’s society at First Methodist church in Grand 
Rapids.  He graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Divinity from Garrett 
Biblical institute, affiliated with Northwestern university, at Evanston, Ill, 
about 1930.

Later he was married and went to Montana where he served as pastor of a 
community church for three years.  He then received a special conference 
appointment as athletic director and professor of social science at the 
Intermountain Union college at Helena, Mont.  From there he went to Mitchell, 
where he died.

Noble will be remembered by many here as a happy, cheerful, optimistic, active 
and accomplished young man.  He was very friendly and consequently made a host 
of friends wherever he was located.


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