Alberta P. “Polly” Noble
September 2, 1927 – September 9, 2014
Mrs. Noble died September 9, 2014 of complications following a heart attack. She was 87 years old.
?Born September 2, 1927, in Concordia, Kansas, to Virginia and Albert Bessette, Polly was the youngest of four children, Lucille Marie being the eldest, then Armand Valentine, Doris
Mae and little Polly.
Polly loved to visit her aunties and ?uncles on the ranch in Aurora, Kansas, and repeated many happy memories of her youth there. One of her first jobs was working at the Brown Grand Theatre in Concordia as an usherette.
Loving to dance, she tagged along with Doris any time she could to the local dances and became a real jitter-bug queen! After the war, she and Doris headed to California to seek their fortune as independent women of the 1940s.
They landed in Modesto, California, where Polly
found a job at the local five-and-dime store as a window dresser. Polly and Doris would frequent the dances that would be held in Oakdale, California.
One night in 1950 she met a young man named Bill Noble there. He had magic tricks and a nice smile. They were married in June of 1950 in Reno, Nevada. They started their life out with only $250, but with lots of love which carried them through. They grew grapes and pumpkins, with Polly driving the tractor during the harvest on the ranch that belonged to Bill’s dad in Ceres, California.
Along the way came three children, Diane, Bruce, and Ann. Later they grew almonds, with the kids helping in the harvest.
After Ann entered school, Polly was ready to get back into the workforce. She found a job at the school the kids attended and was secretary to the principal. Boy, way to keep an eye on the kids, Mom!
The family moved from Ceres to Tulare, California, in 1969. Polly became a bookkeeper for the gas and oil business that Bill took over.
In 1974, they moved to Gustine, California, and bought out another oil distributor. There they stayed, retiring in 1988, and then moving to Modesto, California, in 1993 to be closer to family.
In 2000 they moved to Sequim, following Diane and her husband, Steve. We all lost Bill to cancer in 2008. Polly sold the place and moved to an assisted living facility in 2010, where she made many friends.
Surviving Polly are her daughters, Diane (Steve) Zipser, of Sequim, and Ann Noble, of Kihei, Hawaii ; son, Bruce (Karen) Noble, of Sequim; sister, Lucille Marie Hood, of Modesto, California; three grandsons, one granddaughter, one great-granddaughter and two great-grandsons; and two nieces and three nephews.
