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Leslie Field Noell,
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OBITUARY
 NOELL, LESLIE FIELD
On Saturday, September 6, 2008, in his 96th year. A descendant of two early
Dallas County pioneer families who arrived in the Peters Colony in the mid 19th
century. A graduate of North Dallas High School and the University of Texas as
Austin. He was employed in various engineering and management capacities in the
oil industry in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois and
California. Leslie acquired the taste for traveling and took multi-year
assignments in Venezuela, Argentina, Lebanon, Columbia, Canada and Brazil. After
returning to Texas, he formed his own drilling company and after some time
decided to give up the oil business. After retirement, he continued his
activities with horses and real estate. He was married to Cora Lee Coleman, the
mother of his children, for over forty years. He later married Martha Stone on
June 4, 1988 and they maintained residences in Richardson, Texas and
Guadalajara, Mexico before returning to live full time in Texas. Leslie
and Mary were active travelers throughout the world until his death. Son of the
late John Field Noell and the late Bertie Elizabeth Good Noell; husband of
Martha Stone Noell; father of Leslie F.
Noell, Jr., Jeff C. Noell and Sara Ann
Matthews; grandfather of Julia Noell, Chris Noell, Alan Noell, Doug Noell,
Graham Noell, Rebecca Haynie, Maureen Benke and Billy Matthews; great
grandfather of Twelve; brother of the late Milton J. Noell and the late Ruby
Noell Gryder; uncle of David Noell, Robert Noell and Linda Allen Deertrack.
Friends are invited to attend funeral services on Wednesday morning at 11
o'clock, September 10, 2008 at the Old Frankford Church 17405, Muirfield Drive,
Dallas, Mr. Robert Oglesby and Mr. Monroe Teague will be presiding. Interment
will be in the historic Frankford
Cemetery. Casket bearers: Ted Benke, Dave and Mark Hays, Jeff Haynie, Billy
Matthews, Alan, Chris, Doug and Graham Noell. Mr. Noell will lie in state one
hour preceding the service commencing at 10 o'clock. |
The Dallas Morning News
Submitted by
Betty Lou (Stanley)
Dennis
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