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December 23, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 from 10 AM – 11:30 AM with a funeral service to be held at the conclusion of the visitation hours. All services will be held at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road.
Kenneth V. Noble “Ken” of Wayne passed peacefully in the comfort of his home on Thursday, December 23, 2010 after a courageous battle with declining health which included pulmonary fibrosis and heart failure.
He was born in Teaneck and received his formal education at Teaneck High School graduating with the Class of 1947. He then went on to study at Walter Hervey Jr. College in New York.
His first job was with his father doing building maintenance including waxing floors. Ken had an ambitious sense of entrepreneur independence and did his first independent business activity at flea markets. As he experienced business life he decided to establish a magic and costume business in Fair Lawn. He named it “Ken’s Magic and Costume Shop” and he ran a successful business for many years before his retirement. This shop touched the kid in all his customers. Ken delighted in demonstrating magic gizmos and illusions which in turn created a need “I got to have that” in the big and small kids on the other side of the counter. He was very successful and well known for his work and wonderful sense of humor.
Ken considered himself an introvert but for his family, many friends and customers he was an extravert that readily shared himself with others especially in the business community. Ken was a very likeable person.
He will always be admired for his dedication to family. He was a wonderful husband, father and grandfather. He simply loved his role as a father.
He met the love of his life Carolyn Dunster at a singles’ brunch. They courted for three years and spent much time ballroom dancing many an evening away. They married on December 21, 1996 and had fourteen years of “good and loving marriage” together.
Ken enjoyed travel with his Carolyn making many trips to Las Vegas and Caribbean cruises. Perhaps his favorite hobby was visiting Atlantic City casinos.
Surviving to mourn the loss of this wonderful man are his wife Carolyn; five children Teri Noble and her partner Don of Austin, Texas, Michael Noble and his wife Dianna of Austin, Texas, Trish Noble of Phoenix, Arizona and Sandy Rosati, her husband Glen of Phoenix, Arizona and Cathy Noble-Hornsby and her husband Terry of Denver, Colorado; a stepdaughter Nicole Young and her husband Tim of Santa Barbara, California ; a stepson Jason Dunster of Studio City, California; three grandchildren Michael Noble Jr., Danny Beattie and Blake Hornsby. He is also survived by his former wife Marge Noble of Barnegat, NJ.
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Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 from 10 AM – 11:30 AM with a funeral service to be held at the conclusion of the visitation hours. All services will be held at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road.
December 23, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 from 10 AM – 11:30 AM with a funeral service to be held at the conclusion of the visitation hours. All services will be held at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road.
Kenneth V. Noble “Ken” of Wayne passed peacefully in the comfort of his home on Thursday, December 23, 2010 after a courageous battle with declining health which included pulmonary fibrosis and heart failure.
He was born in Teaneck and received his formal education at Teaneck High School graduating with the Class of 1947. He then went on to study at Walter Hervey Jr. College in New York.
His first job was with his father doing building maintenance including waxing floors. Ken had an ambitious sense of entrepreneur independence and did his first independent business activity at flea markets. As he experienced business life he decided to establish a magic and costume business in Fair Lawn. He named it “Ken’s Magic and Costume Shop” and he ran a successful business for many years before his retirement. This shop touched the kid in all his customers. Ken delighted in demonstrating magic gizmos and illusions which in turn created a need “I got to have that” in the big and small kids on the other side of the counter. He was very successful and well known for his work and wonderful sense of humor.
Ken considered himself an introvert but for his family, many friends and customers he was an extravert that readily shared himself with others especially in the business community. Ken was a very likeable person.
He will always be admired for his dedication to family. He was a wonderful husband, father and grandfather. He simply loved his role as a father.
He met the love of his life Carolyn Dunster at a singles’ brunch. They courted for three years and spent much time ballroom dancing many an evening away. They married on December 21, 1996 and had fourteen years of “good and loving marriage” together.
Ken enjoyed travel with his Carolyn making many trips to Las Vegas and Caribbean cruises. Perhaps his favorite hobby was visiting Atlantic City casinos.
Surviving to mourn the loss of this wonderful man are his wife Carolyn; five children Teri Noble and her partner Don of Austin, Texas, Michael Noble and his wife Dianna of Austin, Texas, Trish Noble of Phoenix, Arizona and Sandy Rosati, her husband Glen of Phoenix, Arizona and Cathy Noble-Hornsby and her husband Terry of Denver, Colorado; a stepdaughter Nicole Young and her husband Tim of Santa Barbara, California ; a stepson Jason Dunster of Studio City, California; three grandchildren Michael Noble Jr., Danny Beattie and Blake Hornsby. He is also survived by his former wife Marge Noble of Barnegat, NJ.
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