Jim married Zola Blakley. They lived in Dickens County for three years and had Luedell and Billie. They moved to New Mexico to be close to Man and Cora Blakley Clark and stayed there for two years. Most of their married life was spent between Texas and New Mexico. They moved back to Dickens to be close to Mrs. Noland. Mr. Noland had just died. One year later they moved to a rent house on Papa Blakley's place and farmed. Wilma Lee was born there. Their crop was hailed out so Jim and his brother, Ernest moved them to Wichita Falls where they did cement work. When they moved back to Dickens County, Jim farmed or taught school. He taught in Chandler, close to Roaring Springs. He and Totsy built a two room shack and Jim said that if Wilma Lee didn't fall through the cracks we would be okay. He also taught in Midway and Steel Hill, close to two years they both taught school at Centerview close to Dayton. Jim served as superintendent and coach. His girls never lost a game. They could really play basketball and were known around the area. The boys were good but not as good as the girls.
Jim got sick so he had to give up school work for awhile. They moved back to New Mexico to Hernandez with Jim's sister, Edna and her family. They all lived in tents. Jim was in charge of building the highway. The mosquitoes were so bad they had to move to Espinola. Jim took Wilma Lee and bought her coveralls, a hat and had her hair cut like a boy. When the road was done, they moved back to Dickens and Nelva La Juan was born in 1935. She was born in Elzie Holley's house south of the court house.
They lived back and forth between Texas and New Mexico until they settled in Lubbock in 1945. Jim died after a long illness in 1958.
Jim F. Noland, 59, died at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday at his home, 2706 Colgate, following a heart attack. He had been in ill health several years.Funeral services will be announced by McDonald Funeral Home.
A retired service station operator, Noland had lived in Lubbock 12 years, moving here form Portales. He was born and reared in Dickens County.
Survivors include the wife; four daughters, Mrs. Wilma Brown, Albuquerque; Mrs. Nelva Yandell, Arlington; Mrs. Luedell Ethridge, Muleshoe; and Mrs. Billie Collier, Lubbock; a brother, Earnest, Friona; and six grandchildren also survive.
©The Texas Spur 1958
Services for Zola Noland, 95, of Lubbock will be at 1:30 p.m. today in Broadview Baptist Church with Truman Johnson, pastor, and the Rev. Jimmy McGuire, associate pastor of Bacon Heights Baptist Church, officiating.Burial will be in Dickens Cemetery under direction of Sanders Funeral Home.
She died Sunday, Dec. 28, 1997, at her residence.
She was born May 8, 1902, in Dickens. She moved to Lubbock in 1945. She married Jim Noland on March 16, 1919, in Dickens. He died June 28, 1958. She graduated from Dickens High School and she was a member of Broadview Baptist Church. She taught Sunday school for 48 years.
She taught school in Centerville and Steel Hill, and she was a homemaker.
A son, James, and a daughter, Wilma Cole, preceded her in death.
Survivors include three daughters, Luedell Fitz of Mansfield, Billie Bridges and Nelva Adams, both of Lubbock; a sister, Naomi Hughes of Strathmore, Calif.; four grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and eight great-great-grandchildren.©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, December, 1998
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