William G. "Bill" Noud
William G. "Bill"
Noud, 58, of Lawrence, Kansas, died after midnight, August 26, 2002,
at Eastridge Care Home in Centralia, KS.
He
was born June 13, 1944, on a farm north of Lillis, Kansas, the son of
Michael W. "Mick" and Margaret S. Adams Noud. He attended
Lillis Grade School at Lillis and graduated from Frankfort High School
in Frankfort, Kansas, in 1962. In the fall of 1962 he began studies
at the University of Kansas, where he received a degree in Organ and
Church Music. He lived in San Francisco for several years where he was
an organist for St. Mary's Cathedral and worked as a buyer for Hastings
Clothing Company.
He later moved to New Jersey and earned
a graduate degree in music in 1980 at Westminster College at Princeton.
He was a member of the college choir. In 1980 he returned to live in
Lawrence, Kansas, where he played the carillon at KU and was the organist
at Our Lady of Good Council Church in Kansas City, Missouri.
He was a member of Corpus Christi Catholic
Church in Lawrence, and was organist for the St. Thomas Moore Catholic
Church in Kansas City. He was a member of the American Guild of Organists
at Lawrence, the American Choral Director's Association, and Phi Mu
Alpha Fraternity of Terra Haute, Indiana. Bill had traveled throughout
Europe including Russia and the Slavic countries and was especially
interested in the cathedrals.
Survivors are three brothers, Thomas Noud
of New Brighton, Minnesota, Michael Noud of Lillis, Kansas, and Patrick
Noud of Herndon, Virginia; two sisters, Elizabeth "Betty"
Keating of Lillis and Thomasene Weissbeck of Topeka.
A memorial mass will be offered at St.
Joseph's Church in Lillis, Kansas on Saturday morning, September 7,
2002. The time will be announced later. Inurnment will be in St. Joseph's
Cemetery following the mass. Inurnment will be in St. Joseph Cemetery
at Lillis.
Memorial contributions may be given for
St. Joseph Cemetery, Lillis, KS or the Eastridge Care Home of Centralia,
and sent in care of the family.