Phillip C. Nobles, age 75, a 30 year resident of the Lyman area, passed away Monday, October 18, 2010 at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. He was born April 25, 1935 in Fallon, Nevada to Alfred and Millie (Rollman) Nobles.
Phil spent his childhood in Nevada, and after high school enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard, serving on a cruiser during the Korean War. After his military service he settled in Fairbanks, AK where he met and married his first wife, Nadine, who preceded him in death. They raised their three children in the San Francisco Bay area, where he began his career as a crane operator while creating fond memories of bass fishing, kayaking and enjoying the great outdoors with his children.
Phil then moved to the Lyman area with his wife Jean, where they lived for over 30 years before she preceded him in death in 2008. Upon retiring from Sicklesteel Crane after many years of faithful service, Phil accomplished a huge lifetime goal of engineering and building his own boat, a 36-foot ocean trawler, which took him ten years to build. He was very proud, and rightfully so.
In January, 2009 Phil was married to Mabel Cook in Lyman and they had 22 wonderful months to enjoy many things together, traveling, fishing, boating and spending time with their families. They were truly blessed during this time, and the only thing they lacked was enough time to do it all.
Phil will be remembered as a true gentleman. He was kind, generous, forgiving and gracious. He was never too old to learn, and was proud to be taught by his grandson to use a computer. He was a member of the Lyman Baptist Church and was confident that when his time on earth was over, he would go to be with Jesus in Heaven. We will truly miss him.
Phil is survived by his wife Mabel of the family home in Lyman. His children, Elizabeth Nobles and her companion Oliver Link of Lyman, Phillip Bradford Nobles of Hamilton, and Laurie Ledet and her husband Gregory of Dufur, OR. 4 grandchildren, Amanda, Amber, Rachelle & Robert, and 3 great-grandchildren, Gabriel, Ivan and Aiden. His brother, Mark Nobles of Graham, WA and his sister, Gale Hay of Haines, AK. A nephew, Steve Hay of Juneau, AK and 3 nieces, Barbara Spikes of Lacey, WA, Deltina Hay of Austin, TX and Suzie Brouillette of Juneau, AK. 2 step-sons, Frank Cook and his wife Patty of Lyman, Jim Cook and his wife Terri of Sedro Woolley and 2 step-daughters, Sherry Black and her husband Jay of Mount Vernon and Alesia Van Pelt and her husband Ron of Burlington. 7 step-grandchildren, Jerrie, Frank Jr, Kristi, Shiloh, Jordan, Melody & Dylan, and 4 step-great-grandchildren, Jacob, Kody, Carter & Cooper.
Funeral Services will be held Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 1:00 PM at Lemley Chapel in Sedro Woolley with interment to follow at the Lyman Cemetery. A reception will follow at the Lyman City Hall. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the Heifer Project @ Heifer.org.
Mabel,
I was so saddened to hear about Uncle Phillip’s passing. He was such a warm and loving man. I know that it was a short time you and he had together, but it sounds as if you were able to pack much loving, living and laughing into that short time. I know he was very happy. Thank you for that.
With love,
Renee, Bob, Bobby, Morgan & Nicole
Mabel,
We are so sorry to hear of your loss. The short time you had together
was full of love and lots of adventure. What the two of you experienced
is more than some couples experience in alot more years than the 22months you had. God Bless you and your familiy…Ken and Gloria Hoffman
Mabel and family I’m so sorry to hear of the death of your husband you had such a short time together but enough time for wonderful memories. Love Alice
Dear Mabel,
It was so hard to think of Phil passing away, he was such a picture of good health. Truely we will all miss him and the great spirit he had.
When Phil came to work for me, I thought what a great person to represent our company. His work ethic and quality standards were building blocks that, over the years, helped us grow. He was able to do anything needed and do it well with a such positive attitude. I always knew he was a great role model and provided positive leadership to those around him.
My greatest joy is to see him grow in the Lord in his latter years. Mabel, your love for the Lord truely was a blessing to a great man. I’m thankful he knew Christ as his Saviour. No job we could ever have could reap a greater reward than to know our eternity will be spent in heaven. Bless you!
Love, Don and Janet Sicklesteel
To Mabel, Gale, Mark and Family,
We were so shocked and so sad to hear about Phillip. We all loved him and we are all going to miss him very much. I’m also speaking for Annabelle and Curly. His visits ment a lot to us. We are so glad we got to meet you last year Mabel. We were looking forward to the next visit.
Phillip loved to talk about the old days, his boat, and the family. He kept us up on what was going on pretty good. We are going to miss that so much.
He gave us a picture of the boat and himself not long after he finished it. It’s in a frame on my desk. It will probably be there for as long as we’re around.
It seems he was taken from us so quick. We thought he was going to live forever. Phillip took such good care of himself. We do know, the last 22 months were very happy, and we are thankful for that. Thank-you Mabel.
We are all sorry we can’t make it to the service. We will be thinking of you all tomorrow and wishing we were there. We will be thinking about Phillip tomorrow and forever.
Love you all,
Dave and Vicky Eckert
To Mabel Nobles ,Nobles & Cook family,
We are deeply sorry for the loss of phil, he was such a wonderful man.
I (Jason) loved spending time in church with Phil we were there to worship Jesus but it seems that whenever Phil and I would get together we’d somehow wind up talking about boats and the beautiful woodwork in their design….I will miss those moments and the mens retreat when Phil took my son Colby out on Leader lake to go Bass fishing what an honor for Colby to share his first time Bass fishing with Phil.
I enjoyed playing “Googley ball” with phil kind of like horse shoes except with bolo’s we had such a good time together we will never forget his kindness and his gentle voice we love you Phil …..Praise Jesus for friends like you…AMEN… sincerely Jason,Renee’, Colby, Luke,Ella, David and Leona Self.
Mabel and family, we are so sorry to hear about Phil. Phil and all of his family, Al, Millie, Leon, Gail, and Mark, has been like family to the Hakkila’s since the early 1940’s. I still remember the time when our Brother Don and Phil talked our Mother into giving them both hair perms when they were in high school in the late 40’s. I’ll bet they thought they were looking pretty cool, of course they were both real handsome anyway. Phil will be very missed he was a wonderful person. Love Ron & Pennie (Hakkila) Peterson
Mabel,
We did not know you personally but through our mutual friend Sharon Prignano.
Bruce & I will be married 2 yrs. in Dec. both in our 70’s. You are an inspiration for us to make the very most of our time together on this earth.
You are in our thoughts and prayers.
Bruce & Gloria Ault
Uncle Phillip was a very interesting man. I am glad I was able to spend some time with Phil, Mark, and Gail a few years back.It seems it was just yesterday.He will be missed.
With Love
Jim, MaryAnne and Family
Mabel
I just read the paper and was shocked to read about phil. He seemed like a true gentleman. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. I’m sure you two made some wonderful memories during the 22 months you got to spend togeather.May god bless
Mabel, I just heard about your loss and am thinking of you at this time of great sorrow. Sounds like you two packed a lot into 22 months and were very busy enjoying every minute during those 22 months. I will be praying for you and the family, he is in a better place and in the arms of Jesus waiting for you I’m sure.
God Bless.