The Continuo mourns

Edward Lamond Nobles

November 17, 1935 - January 2, 2008

Services for Edward ("Eddie") Lamond Nobles will be held Tuesday, January 8, 2008, at 11 a.m. at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Meridian, MS, with the Rev. Brian Carroll officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Nobles, 72, of Meridian, was the only son of Fanny Louise Sherrod Nobles and Booker Theodore Nobles. He was born in Meridian, and after finishing kindergarten in the Etta O. Coates Kindergarten School and First Union Baptist Church in 1941, he was enrolled at the Wechsler Junior High School of Meridian, which he attended from the first through eighth grade from 1942-1950, when he graduated. Throughout his elementary and junior high school years, he studied piano, first with his aunt, Marie Sherrod, and later in the third through eighth grades, with Maggie Buckingham Sweetner. After completing his elementary and junior high school years in 1950, he enrolled at the T.J. Harris Senior High School, where he completed the ninth grade through twelfth 12th grades, During high school, he continued to study piano under Marie Gully Beechman, graduating an honor student in 1954.

Mr. Nobles continued his education at Jackson State College (now Jackson State University) in 1954 and graduated with honors with a bachelor of music degree with an emphasis in piano and organ in 1958. He continued his education at Fisk University in Nashville, TN, later transferring to Teachers College of Columbia University in New York, N.Y. From which he graduated in 1968 with masters' of music education degree with an emphasis in piano and voice.

Mr. Nobles taught music and served as organist and choir director extensively in both the South and the North. He taught school for eight years in Mississippi before moving to Michigan where he taught for 18 years. He returned to Mississippi in 1984. He was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church of Meridian and served as organist for more than 20 years since returning in 1984. He was a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity and the Knights of Columbus. A longtime member of the American Guild of Organists, he held the C.A.G.O. certificate, and was active in the Jackson, MS Chapter. After completing instruction to become Catholic in 1961, he took the Saint's name of Edward for his baptismal name. Survivors include several cousins, and many friends.

Visitation will be Tuesday from 9 a.m.- 10:45 a.m. at the church.

- from the Meridian Star obituary, modified by Glenn A. Gentry