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George and Fannie Noakes will be honored posthumously this Sunday, November 7, with a special service at Shiloh Baptist Church in Woodville culminating in the unveiling of a memorial at their graves in the church cemetery.
George Noakes died in 1951 at the age of 57. His wife Fannie died in 1964 at the age of 80. But both have lived on in the memory of Rappahannock’s black community.
While the county struggled in the grip of the great depression in the 1930’s, the hardest of hard times, Mr. and Mrs. Noakes opened the doors of their modest four room home to the teachers at Scrabble schol.
The school was built on donated land with donated labor and materials in the days before blacks had even the “separate but equal" doctrine to rely on for the education of their children. There was no high school in the county then for black youngsters. They had to attend boarding school in Manassas or Christianburg if they wanted to go further than the seventh grade class at Scrabble. the only educational institution open to them in Rappahannock.
At great personal sacrifice, George and Fannie Noakes gave the teachers at that little school a place to live. Thev slept in the living room of their home for 20 years so that the men and women who
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