Florence Noyes

CANTON – Born on Aug. 6, 1928 in Mexico, and passed on Oct. 4, 2022 in Canton, at the age of 94.

First born of the 10 children of Stanwood Wheeler Virgin and Evangeline Cinderella Fuller. She was greatly loved by her nine siblings, Ruth Snell, Cora Doucette, Marilyn Finnegan, Stanwood, James, Helen, Fay Hutchinson, Linda Brown, and Cathy Carrier. The younger ones thinking of her as both a mother and a sister.

Florence graduated from Mexico High School with a Home Economics diploma, while also working as a Nurses Aid at Rumford Community Hospital. It was at RCH that she met husband to be, Hurchial Noyes, of Carthage, who was admitted with a gunshot wound from a hunting accident. It has been lovingly called a “shooting match” by the family. They married, raised three children, lived all 69 years of their marriage in their “home town” of Carthage. She became a civic and church leader (Carthage Seventh Day Adventist Church) and was very devoted to her family, church, and community.

Florence was predeceased by her parents Stanwood and Cinderella Virgin; siblings Stanwood, Marilyn, James, and Helen.

She is survived by siblings Ruth Snell, Cora Doucette, Fay Hutchinson, Linda Brown, and Cathy Carrier; also her daughter, Janet McIntyre of Carthage and husband, Phill, son, Charles of Carthage and wife, Deborah, and son, Daniel of Peru and wife, Crystal; grandchildren Gina Graham and husband, Alan, Sara Plunkett and husband, Geoff, Ashley Perry and husband, Oliver, Betsy Noyes and partner, Aaron Dyer, and Charles Noyes Jr. “CJ”; great-grandchildren Nathan, Luke, and Seth Graham, Brettany and Reagan MacFarland, and Rowan Dyer; many nieces and nephews.

A special thank you to the Living Center staff at Pinnacle Health and Rehab and Beacon Hospice for the care, kindness and friendship shown to our Mom.

A graveside service will be held on Sunday, Oct. 16 at 1 p.m. at Newman Cemetery in Carthage.

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