William G. “Bill” Noud, 58, of Lawrence, KS, 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, KS, the son of Michael W. “Mick” and Margaret S. Adams Noud. He attended Lillis Grade School and graduated from Frankfort High School in Frankfort 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, where he played the carillon at KU and was the organist at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Kansas City, MO.

At present time 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, IN. 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, MN, Michael Noud of Lillis, KS, and Patrick Noud of Herndon, VA; 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 on Saturday morning, September 7, 2002. The time will be announced later. Inurnment will be in St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Lillis following the mass.

Memorial contributions may be given for St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Lillis, KS or the Eastridge Care Home of Centralia, and sent in care of the family.