Noon, Joe – Lecturer could account for his popularity

Joe Noon (1922-2009)

Edward Joseph Noon, was born and schooled in Sheffield and later attended De La Salle College for boys in Sheffield.

He was considered to be “of good intellectual ability and sound judgement”.

He married Marguerite and they had 10 children.

On leaving college he worked for Sheffield Town Hall until the outbreak of the Second World War. He joined the Royal Navy in 1943 and was based in Colombo, Ceylon, where he worked on intercepting Japanese communications, until he was demobbed in 1945.

He returned to Sheffield and got a position at the Sheffield Water Board. In 1956 he qualified as a teacher and found employment at Grantham College, where he taught book-keeping and accounting.

He loved music, especially Gilbert and Sullivan productions and sang in the local choral society and operatic society.

Mr Noon worked as treasurer for local charities Mencap and the Cree Centre and also for St Mary’s Church, which was immensely important to him throughout his life.