Obituary: Former resident Lester John Noel, Grants Pass, Lake County, Oregon USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE: ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Chris Havnar April 2003 ********************************************************************************* Lake Co Daily Courier (Grants Pass, Oregon), Monday, January 10, 1977 Lester J. Noel Former resident Lester John Noel, 65, died Nov. 22 in Lakeview, where he had resided since September. Word of his death reached the Courier in a letter from his sister Theda N. Scott of Lakeview, who lived in Grants Pass from 1947 to 1975. Noel was born Jan. 21, 1911, at Fort Sam Houston, Tex. He resided here several years, and in 1947 and 1948 was employed by Josephine County and Schmidt Lumber Co. Before September, 1976, he resided in Port Orchard, Wash. Having moved there after retiring from Lockheed Aircraft, Burbank, Calif., where he was an electronics technician. He belonged to First Baptist Church in Port Orchard. Funeral services were in Lakeview, and burial was at Sunset Park Cemetery. Survivors include his mother, Ella Noel, Lakeview; fours sisters, two brothers, several nieces and nephews.