H. CLINTON NOBLE

H. Clinton Noble died on July 11^th at a nursing home in Hadley, MA, close to family members who lived nearby. He was 89 years old. A long-time resident of West Hartford and then Farmington, he was the son of Howard B. and Gertrude B. Noble of East Hartford.

He started his career in the New England machine tool industry, working at Noble & Westbrook Manufacturing Company of East Hartford, which had been founded at the beginning of the last century. It bore the name of the two families whose members proudly and diligently ran the company for three generations. Clint Noble became part of this tradition after graduating from LehighUniversity in 1947.

He interrupted his studies at Lehigh for several years to serve his country during World War II here in the US as an Air Force pilot and flight instructor.

When Noble & Westbrook Manufacturing was sold to the former Bristol Brass Company, Clint moved to Hartford Special Machinery Company of Simsbury, where he served as vice president.

In his retirement, he enjoyed spending time on the Connecticut shore and was active on various boards and committees. He was an enthusiastic member of the Connecticut Valley Lehigh Club and loved to attend the school’s football games. He reveled in Connecticut history, especially the state’s prominent place in America’s manufacturing economy, and had a proud mastery of the details of his family’s history, in both East Hartford and Becket, MA. Clint was a lover of music, serving on the board of CONCORA for several years. When Clint was an active member of the First Congregational Church of East Hartford, he served as Deacon and was a lay delegate to the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ. He joined Asylum Hill Congregational Church of Hartford in 2000 and had been on the board of the New Samaritan Corporation.

He leaves a brother, Holcomb B. Noble of New York City; two daughters, Alice Morse and Elizabeth Gummere, both of Amherst, MA, and their husbands, Richard and John; a beloved granddaughter, Elizabeth Morse, who is a sophomore at Grinnell College; and several nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews. He was formerly married to Alice McAden Jones of Charlotte, NC, who died in 2002, and Florence Cross, now of Midlothian, VA. He was predeceased by his sister, Joanne Olmsted of Burlington, VT. Obituary and memorial register at www.douglassfuneral.com.

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