Jack Ross Noble

Jack was born November 7, 1931, in Gainesville, Texas, the only child of A.W. (Dub) Noble and Pauline Wallace Bullard. Jack was raised on the family farm near Sivells Bend on the Red River and nurtured by a loving Grandmother, Ruth Ellen Noble. The home place was fondly known as Nubbin Ridge. The farm was taken by the Federal Government at the beginning of WWII as site for Camp Howze and Jack moved to Dallas to live with his mother and stepfather, G.M. Bullard.
Jack's ancestors on his mother's side came to Texas in 1831, landing on Texas soil by ship at the mouth of the Brazos River. His father's ancestors were pioneers in the Kaufman County community of Kemp, Texas, prior to the Civil War.
After attending schools in Dallas and Kilgore, Texas, Jack graduated from Baird, Texas High School in 1948. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1951 and served during the Korean War. After his discharge in 1954, Jack began his college career at Tarleton Junior College (now Tarleton State), and then he went to Texas Christian University (GO FROGS) where he graduated in 1958 with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Government.
Jack did graduate studies at the University of Oklahoma where he met Gayle Allison Noble, his best friend and loving wife of 57 years. They were married in 1965 and moved to South Florida, where they lived in Delray Beach, West Palm Beach and Stuart for the next 27 years. In 1992, they moved to Kingwood, Texas, in 1994 to Denver, Colorado, and then to Georgetown (Sun City), Texas in 1997 before moving to Austin in 2007. They returned to Sun City in Georgetown in 2019.
Jack had a varied career, both in government and in the private sector. His first job in Florida was as a staff writer for the Palm Beach Post newspaper. Jack became City Clerk of the City of West Palm Beach in 1967 and then moved into the City Manager's office as the Manager's administrative assistant. In 1971, he became the first County Administrator of Martin County, Florida. He was the City Manager of the City of Stuart, Florida where he retired in 1992, only to begin work the next month in Kingwood, Texas, with CH2MHill engineering company's Operations Management International (OMI). Jack retired again in 1999 but continued to consult until 2008.
Jack served on the Georgetown City Council from 2001 to 2004, the first resident of Sun City Georgetown to be so elected. In 2005, he was appointed by Governor Rick Perry to fill out an uncompleted term on the Williamson County Commission.
During his early years, Jack was loved and cared for by many aunts and uncles on both sides of his family. He was blessed to reconnect with and spend many happy times with a number of cousins, also on both sides of his family, in his later years.
Jack is survived by his wife, Gayle, his daughter Becky and her husband Scott Christianson, his best feline buddies Señor Queso and Smokey Joe, his dear cousins and their families, and his daughter Kerry and her three children.