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taught their neighbors children could have the two bedrooms upstairs. Fannie cooked and washed for their guests while her husband worked as a painter, an apple picker, a rail cutter, a fence builder — any job he could find.
They extended a helping hand to others besides school teachers. Both were dedicated workers for Shiloh Baptist Church. Whenever friend or acquaintance was ill, Fannie brought food and nursing care. With no children of their own, they adopted a daughter and took a blind child into their home to raise.
They truly embodied the Christian ethic of “do unto others as you would have them do unto you." When they died, they were buried in the cemetery of the church that had played such a big part in their lives.
A few months ago, E. Franklin Warner was visiting the graves of his parents in that same cemetery when he noticed the absence of a marker at the site where George and Fannie Noakes had been laid to rest.
"I believe that Mr. and Mrs. Noakes were as fine a couple as we have ever had in this community. While they were especially good to my family and to other individual families, they were extraordinarily good church people.” Warner maintains. “Over and beyond that, every one of us who attended Scrabble School and our families owe a special debt of
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