----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 12/ /1955

Noah, Calvin Adolph (1887 - 1955)

GREENWOOD, CLARK COUNTY--Relatives from here who attended the funeral of Calvin Adolph Noah, 68, a former resident, at Baxter Iowa, Friday were Mrs. Clara Wendt and Mrs. Emil Noah and son Norman. Also attending were Adolph Noah, Owen, and Oscar of Alma.

Mr. Noah died of a heart ailment Dec. 19, 1955 at Baxter. Final rites were conducted from the Bethany Evangelical and Reformed Church, and burial was made in the Baxter Cemetery. Military rites were conducted by the Baxter Legion Post.

The son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Noah of Greenwood was born Jan. 26, 1887, and received his education here. He went to Baxter in 1910 and was engaged in carpentry. During World War I, he served in the Army Engineering Corps and after his discharge he returned to Baxter, operating a hardware business until 1944. Since then he was a building contractor.

Surviving him are his wife, the former Myrtle Whaley, whom he married Aug. 6, 1929, at Baxter on sons, Leo Noah, U.S. Navy, Norfolk, Va. and a daughter, Loretta, Milwaukee. Other survivors are thre brothers and four sisters, Emil, Mrs. Wendt and Mrs. Arthur (Bertha) Schwarze, Greenwood Oscar, Alma Albert, Sidney, Mont. Mrs. William (Selma) Holman, Port Washington and Mrs. Alvina Peters, Milwaukee. One sister preceded him in death.