St. Clair County Obits

WANDA LEE NOAKES

St. Clair County Courier
22 July 2005

Wanda Lee Noakes was born August 7, 1910 to Arch L. and Burleigh Yeoman
Cooper at Chalk Level and passed away July 16, 2005, at Truman Lake Manor in
Lowry City at the age of 94 years 11 months and nine days.
Wanda was married on February 25, 1933 to Arthur Theodore Ted Noakes and
they enjoyed 67 years of marriage before his death in July 2000. Two
daughters were born to this union, Roberta Louise and Beulah Lee.
Wanda lived all her life in Missouri except for a year in California. She
has resided at Truman Lake Manor in Lowry City since March 1998. She
accepted Christ as her savior as a young girl, was baptized a member of the
Kidd's Chapel United Methodist Church and was active as long as her health
permitted.
She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; two sisters, Neva and Ula
Opal; three brohters, Orville Walter, Noel Steven and Chester Lee Roy;
sister-in-law, Thelma Cooper; and brother-in-law, Kenneth Chiles.
Wanda is survived by daughters, Roberta Grove and husband James, Appleton
City, Beulah Gordon and husband Arthur, Lowry City; one grandson, Ted Arthur
Gordan and his wife Idalisa, of Irving, Texas and one granddaughter, Wanda
June Gordon and her fiancee Richard Evans of Ames, Iowa; sister, Arlene
Chiles of Springfield; sister-in-law, Nellie Coooper of Anaheim, Calif.;
nephews and neices and other family and friends.
Services were held Monday, July 18, at 10 a.m. at Concord Cemetery with Jim
Knight officiating. Casketbearers were Gary Noakes, Dennis Noakes, Jim
Noakes, Bob Gordon, Jay Knight and Roger Gurley. Interment was in the
Concord Cemetery and arrangements were made by Sheldon-Goodrich Funeral Home
in Osceola.