given name: Martha Alice Brereton.
"People and Events from Elwood, Some Thoughts about Alice Noel;" from a local Will county, IL newspaper article, undated and unidentified; Aug 1983; by Mrs. Harlow Nicholson.
About noon, Saturday, Aug. 20, one of the very last of her generation of lovely ladies in Jackson Township was laid to rest in Brown Cemetery. We knew her as Alice Noel but she was baptized Martha Alice Brereton. Her parents were James and Fannie Smith Brereton and she was born in Wilton Center, March 5, 1885. At the age of four years, her family moved to Jackson Township. Three sisters and three brothers preceded her in death. They are Mrs. Sadie (Joseph) Eib, Mrs. Emma (Marion) Eib, Mrs. Ollie (George) Brown, Arthur, George and James L. (Roy) Brereton. Alice attended school here and in Joliet. She entered Joliet Township High School in 1900 and graduated in 1904. She then taught school in Jackson Township for four years. On her twenty-fifth birthday, March 5, 1910, Alice and Frank Noel were married. They lived in the upper apartment at the Noel homestead farm house, located on Route 53, 1/2 mile north of Noel Road. The lower apartment was occupied by Frank's parents, Ervin and Adeline Gonter Noel. The farm was first settled by Gabriel and Elizabeth Zarley Noel. The Noel's farmed the land until Frank's retirement. He died Feb. 28, 1968. Alice moved to Salem Village in 1976. Now there is no trace of the farmstead, except where a bit of the old driveway joins the pavement of Route 53. Mrs. Noel died Aug. 18 at Salem Home. Funeral services were held Aug. 18 at Sonntag-Wylie Funeral Home, Joliet with Rev. James F. Offrink, pastor of Elwood Community Church officiating...She was a member of the old Brown Church which stood at the northeast corner of Route 53 and Manhattan Blacktop. When the Brown Church folks came into the Elwood Methodist Church, Alice was one of the most active members, singing in the choir, teaching Sunday School classes and serving in many offices, especially within the Women's Society of Christian Service...Some will remember the Jackson Grange Hall which stood at the northwest corner of Route 53 and Manhattan Blacktop until the highway was made four lanes. Alice served many years there as lecturer, whose duty it was to prepare monthly programs of drama, music, games, contests and variety acts. She also served on the board of directors for the Brown Cemetery Association. When others think of Alice, her handiwork will come to mind. She did beautiful quilting as one of the members of the Sunshine Quilting Circle, begun by a group of young women and continued until they were in their seventies and eighties. Numerous nieces and nephews survive...Interment was in the family plot in Brown Cemetery at the church.
[news article from the archives of Joanne Rachke and Jean Maryanovich]
"People and Events from Elwood, Some Thoughts about Alice Noel;" from a local Will county, IL newspaper article, undated and unidentified; Aug 1983; by Mrs. Harlow Nicholson.
About noon, Saturday, Aug. 20, one of the very last of her generation of lovely ladies in Jackson Township was laid to rest in Brown Cemetery. We knew her as Alice Noel but she was baptized Martha Alice Brereton. Her parents were James and Fannie Smith Brereton and she was born in Wilton Center, March 5, 1885. At the age of four years, her family moved to Jackson Township. Three sisters and three brothers preceded her in death. They are Mrs. Sadie (Joseph) Eib, Mrs. Emma (Marion) Eib, Mrs. Ollie (George) Brown, Arthur, George and James L. (Roy) Brereton. Alice attended school here and in Joliet. She entered Joliet Township High School in 1900 and graduated in 1904. She then taught school in Jackson Township for four years. On her twenty-fifth birthday, March 5, 1910, Alice and Frank Noel were married. They lived in the upper apartment at the Noel homestead farm house, located on Route 53, 1/2 mile north of Noel Road. The lower apartment was occupied by Frank's parents, Ervin and Adeline Gonter Noel. The farm was first settled by Gabriel and Elizabeth Zarley Noel. The Noel's farmed the land until Frank's retirement. He died Feb. 28, 1968. Alice moved to Salem Village in 1976. Now there is no trace of the farmstead, except where a bit of the old driveway joins the pavement of Route 53. Mrs. Noel died Aug. 18 at Salem Home. Funeral services were held Aug. 18 at Sonntag-Wylie Funeral Home, Joliet with Rev. James F. Offrink, pastor of Elwood Community Church officiating...She was a member of the old Brown Church which stood at the northeast corner of Route 53 and Manhattan Blacktop. When the Brown Church folks came into the Elwood Methodist Church, Alice was one of the most active members, singing in the choir, teaching Sunday School classes and serving in many offices, especially within the Women's Society of Christian Service...Some will remember the Jackson Grange Hall which stood at the northwest corner of Route 53 and Manhattan Blacktop until the highway was made four lanes. Alice served many years there as lecturer, whose duty it was to prepare monthly programs of drama, music, games, contests and variety acts. She also served on the board of directors for the Brown Cemetery Association. When others think of Alice, her handiwork will come to mind. She did beautiful quilting as one of the members of the Sunshine Quilting Circle, begun by a group of young women and continued until they were in their seventies and eighties. Numerous nieces and nephews survive...Interment was in the family plot in Brown Cemetery at the church.
[news article from the archives of Joanne Rachke and Jean Maryanovich]
given name: Martha Alice Brereton.
"People and Events from Elwood, Some Thoughts about Alice Noel;" from a local Will county, IL newspaper article, undated and unidentified; Aug 1983; by Mrs. Harlow Nicholson.
About noon, Saturday, Aug. 20, one of the very last of her generation of lovely ladies in Jackson Township was laid to rest in Brown Cemetery. We knew her as Alice Noel but she was baptized Martha Alice Brereton. Her parents were James and Fannie Smith Brereton and she was born in Wilton Center, March 5, 1885. At the age of four years, her family moved to Jackson Township. Three sisters and three brothers preceded her in death. They are Mrs. Sadie (Joseph) Eib, Mrs. Emma (Marion) Eib, Mrs. Ollie (George) Brown, Arthur, George and James L. (Roy) Brereton. Alice attended school here and in Joliet. She entered Joliet Township High School in 1900 and graduated in 1904. She then taught school in Jackson Township for four years. On her twenty-fifth birthday, March 5, 1910, Alice and Frank Noel were married. They lived in the upper apartment at the Noel homestead farm house, located on Route 53, 1/2 mile north of Noel Road. The lower apartment was occupied by Frank's parents, Ervin and Adeline Gonter Noel. The farm was first settled by Gabriel and Elizabeth Zarley Noel. The Noel's farmed the land until Frank's retirement. He died Feb. 28, 1968. Alice moved to Salem Village in 1976. Now there is no trace of the farmstead, except where a bit of the old driveway joins the pavement of Route 53. Mrs. Noel died Aug. 18 at Salem Home. Funeral services were held Aug. 18 at Sonntag-Wylie Funeral Home, Joliet with Rev. James F. Offrink, pastor of Elwood Community Church officiating...She was a member of the old Brown Church which stood at the northeast corner of Route 53 and Manhattan Blacktop. When the Brown Church folks came into the Elwood Methodist Church, Alice was one of the most active members, singing in the choir, teaching Sunday School classes and serving in many offices, especially within the Women's Society of Christian Service...Some will remember the Jackson Grange Hall which stood at the northwest corner of Route 53 and Manhattan Blacktop until the highway was made four lanes. Alice served many years there as lecturer, whose duty it was to prepare monthly programs of drama, music, games, contests and variety acts. She also served on the board of directors for the Brown Cemetery Association. When others think of Alice, her handiwork will come to mind. She did beautiful quilting as one of the members of the Sunshine Quilting Circle, begun by a group of young women and continued until they were in their seventies and eighties. Numerous nieces and nephews survive...Interment was in the family plot in Brown Cemetery at the church.
[news article from the archives of Joanne Rachke and Jean Maryanovich]
"People and Events from Elwood, Some Thoughts about Alice Noel;" from a local Will county, IL newspaper article, undated and unidentified; Aug 1983; by Mrs. Harlow Nicholson.
About noon, Saturday, Aug. 20, one of the very last of her generation of lovely ladies in Jackson Township was laid to rest in Brown Cemetery. We knew her as Alice Noel but she was baptized Martha Alice Brereton. Her parents were James and Fannie Smith Brereton and she was born in Wilton Center, March 5, 1885. At the age of four years, her family moved to Jackson Township. Three sisters and three brothers preceded her in death. They are Mrs. Sadie (Joseph) Eib, Mrs. Emma (Marion) Eib, Mrs. Ollie (George) Brown, Arthur, George and James L. (Roy) Brereton. Alice attended school here and in Joliet. She entered Joliet Township High School in 1900 and graduated in 1904. She then taught school in Jackson Township for four years. On her twenty-fifth birthday, March 5, 1910, Alice and Frank Noel were married. They lived in the upper apartment at the Noel homestead farm house, located on Route 53, 1/2 mile north of Noel Road. The lower apartment was occupied by Frank's parents, Ervin and Adeline Gonter Noel. The farm was first settled by Gabriel and Elizabeth Zarley Noel. The Noel's farmed the land until Frank's retirement. He died Feb. 28, 1968. Alice moved to Salem Village in 1976. Now there is no trace of the farmstead, except where a bit of the old driveway joins the pavement of Route 53. Mrs. Noel died Aug. 18 at Salem Home. Funeral services were held Aug. 18 at Sonntag-Wylie Funeral Home, Joliet with Rev. James F. Offrink, pastor of Elwood Community Church officiating...She was a member of the old Brown Church which stood at the northeast corner of Route 53 and Manhattan Blacktop. When the Brown Church folks came into the Elwood Methodist Church, Alice was one of the most active members, singing in the choir, teaching Sunday School classes and serving in many offices, especially within the Women's Society of Christian Service...Some will remember the Jackson Grange Hall which stood at the northwest corner of Route 53 and Manhattan Blacktop until the highway was made four lanes. Alice served many years there as lecturer, whose duty it was to prepare monthly programs of drama, music, games, contests and variety acts. She also served on the board of directors for the Brown Cemetery Association. When others think of Alice, her handiwork will come to mind. She did beautiful quilting as one of the members of the Sunshine Quilting Circle, begun by a group of young women and continued until they were in their seventies and eighties. Numerous nieces and nephews survive...Interment was in the family plot in Brown Cemetery at the church.
[news article from the archives of Joanne Rachke and Jean Maryanovich]
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