NOBLE, Katherine B. (Rowland) 1902-1996

NOBLE, ROWLAND

Posted By: K. L. Kittleson
Date: 10/5/2006 at 22:45:30

AUSTIN, MINNESOTA -- Services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Monday at United Methodist Church in Austin for Kathleen B. Noble, 94, of Austin, who died Thursday (Sept. 12, 1996) at St. Mark's Lutheran Home in Austin. The Rev. Becky Jo Thilles will officiate and burial will be in Grandview Cemetery.

The former Katherine B. Rowland was born July 13, 1902, in St. Ansgar, Iowa. She attended St. Ansgar schools.

On Nov. 10, 1920, she married Hannible Noble in St. Ansgar, and they moved to the Lansing area; he died in 1960.

Mrs. Noble worked as a nurse's aide at St. Olaf Hospital.

She was a member of the First United Methodist Church and Church Circle and the VFW Auxiliary.

Survivors include four sons, Roger, Robert, Ronald and Ross Noble, all of Austin; four daughters, Evelyn Duenow of St. Ansgar, Jeanette (Mrs. Joe) Bjork of Silver City, N.M., Barbara (Mrs. Gary) Underland of Owatonna, and Judy (Mrs. Robert) Beck of Conger, Minn.; 34 grandchildren, 58 great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mildred Noble of Austin and Ruby Tanner of Perham. She was preceded in death by a daughter, a grandson and two sisters.

Friends may call from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Clasen-Jordan Mortuary in Austin and at the church for an hour before the service Monday.