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WARREN W. NOBLE
Old Time Comedian Passes Away After an Extended Illness
(Chariton Patriot, 12 April 1923)
Warren Weston Noble was born in Chariton, Iowa, on January 26, 1856, and died April 9, 1923, aged sixty-seven years, two months and eleven days.
And in this brief paragraph is the beginning and ending of a mortal scene, and as the day closed and the somber shadows formed into the curtains of night, so this life passed out at 8:00 o'clock.
He was the oldest son of Appleton R. and Maria Noble, pioneer residents of Lucas County, who long since passed from this pilgrimage, leaving their memories strongly engraven in the affaction of those who survived. At the time of Warren's birth, the family home was in a residence near where the Smyth block is now, and his boyhood was spent in his native village.
There were six children of the family, two sisters dying in infancy. The three surviving brothers are George, of Chicago, and Chas. E. and Clinton, of this city.
He was never married. He was of a positive character and brilliant mind and his nature was one of generosity and much could be said of this and will remain as an encomium. As a companiable gentleman he was most cordial and interesting, and hospitable almost to his own slight and had the advantages of culture and travel. And thus he is remembered in the vigor of his active manhood.
As a youth he learned the printer's trade in The Leader office when it was conducted by the late D.M. Baker, but as he had a trenchant for the drama he afterwards took up acting and was a master of the stage, and became the genius of the Warren W. Noble Dramatic Co., and his troupes appeared in all the important cities in the United States, but as he had a most sympathetic nature he often returned to his native town and his tenderness in parental regard and family ties was truly commendable.
He never neglected a friend. Year after year he traveled far and near and the name of Warren Noble was everywhere, it being one of his policies never to turn anyone away from his doors on account of not having the money to enter, and thousands received his favors and were his friends. He got more satisfaction out of this than in any other part of his work. His benovelence was superb.
And so often he came back to the old home, and then away again.
But one day ten years ago he returned --- to remain. He was stricken with paralysis and from that time 'til yesterday when he took his final departure, he was slowly dying shut up in his room.
Weak in body and less vigorous in mind he endured it heroically to the end, often playing over the past and conversing with his friends as they called. In his circumscribed stage, tho he never left his narrow room --- and received new joys, only to again lapse into melancholy at the fate which had befallen him.
But the last scene has closed --- and the curtain has fallen. It was pathetic.
The funeral was held at his late home Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock conducted by the Rev. Frank Bean, under the I.O.O.F., of which he was a member, followed by interment in the Chariton cemetery.
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