- Date Of Birth: February 4, 1929
- Date Of Death: December 30, 2015
- State: Maine
Dewey Harrison Noland, Jr.
February 4, 1929
December 30, 2015
Dewey Harrison Noland, Jr. Portlanda”Dewey Harrison Noland died from lung cancer December 30, 2015 at home. He was born February 4, 1929, in Waynesville, North Carolina, the son of the late Dewey Harrison and Lillian (Hooks) Noland.
Dewey graduated from Virginia Military Institute, Class of 1951. He married Frances Barr in 1954 and they settled in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he spent his career as a civil engineer with McNamee, Porter, and Seeley (subsequently joined with Tetra Tech). He became a partner in 1966 and retired in 1993. In Ann Arbor, he was a member of the First Congregational Church, the Rotary Club, and the Ann Arbor Club, and served on the Board of Glacier Hills Senior Living Community. On retirement, Dewey and Fran moved to Maine, living in Portland, where he was an active member of the McLellan School Houses Association, and in Limerick at the old Barr family home. Dewey avidly pursued his hobbies of boating in his Pulsifer Hampton, fly fishing (especially in the mountains of Western North Carolina), carving walking sticks, and hanging out with his friends at the coffee shop. Where ever he went he made friends, as Fran was wont to say, “Everybody knows Dewey.” A great host, he was characterized by treating his guests to lobsters on the night of their arrival, and by having barn parties with music of all genres emanating from his tape deck.
Survivors in addition to Fran, his wife of 61 years, are his brother, James Madison Noland and his wife Julia (White) Noland of Greenville, South Carolina, daughter, Laura Noland Bushey and her husband Robert, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, daughter Lela Noland Baughman and her husband Andrew, of Atlanta, Georgia, daughter Frances Noland Ryan and her husband Peter, of Gorham, Maine, daughter Mary Lillian Noland Jensen and her husband Hans of Fishers, Indiana; 7 grandchildren, Matthew and Susan Baughman, Brendan and Ian Ryan, Clare and Peter Jensen, and Margaret Bushey; and many nieces and nephews. The family thanks the staff at Home Partners and Hospice of Southern Maine for the loving care that Dewey received, enabling him to stay at home during his final illness.
