This information about the passing of Madeline Gonzalez was furnished to me by Diane Matsch on the 28th of April and is very much appreciated. If anyone has any questions about this I would ask that you contact me first. Tom M...........
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Madeline was 89 years of age when she passed on and Roy Noon, as well as others here in California, knew her well - - they may have been different generations but they all grew up together, not just as cousins but friends as well.
"Madeline has been in failing health quite a while and was in a rehab in Nogales until she was brought to Phoenix on last Thursday. She was on a ventilator and heavily sedated until her death yesterday. (The reason she was brought to Phoenix is that the hospital in Nogales has no ICU and Tucson had no beds.)"
"The funeral will be held on Thursday, May 5 at 10 am in Nogales. Interment will be in the Noon plot in the Nogales Cemetery. In the plot are the remains of my grandparents, Edward and Estella Noon, Walter and Eva Noon, Gwendoyn Noon Barton, Doctor and my parents."
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Her obituary will appear in the Nogales International International (newspaper) next Tuesday, the 5th of May so there may well be some changes to the document in the interim. If there are indeed changes I shall either repost or you may assume that they are relatively minor and no new posting is necessary - - we shall 'cross that bridge when we get there'.
"Madeline Noon Gonzalez, a lifelong Nogalian, passed away Wednesday, April 27, following a long battle with failing health. Born in Nogales in 1915 to Edward and Estella Noon, she became a fixture in Nogales with her many community activities. Starting with an appearance at the Worlds Fair in San Francisco, where she marched down Market Street playing the marimba with the Nogales High School Drum and Bugle Corps, until her final Costume Revue production, Mrs. Gonzalez loved making her community an interesting place to live.
Educated through high school in Nogales schools, Madeline attended Lindenwood College in St. Charles, Missouri, Northern Arizona University and Woodbury Business College in Los Angeles. After returning to Nogales, she began to work in the office of her future husband, Dr. J. S. ‘Doctor’ Gonzalez, where she moved from receptionist to x-ray technician to Doctor’s right hand and business manager. Mrs. Gonzalez’s other business interests included investments, which she not only loved but succeeded at quite well.
Mrs. Gonzalez was very active in the early Nogales Little Theater. She directed several plays and melodramas which were quite well received. Perhaps Mrs. Gonzalez is best known for the Costume Revues which she produced for the benefit of the Nogales Lions Club and various other charities and organizations. The 60 costumes were a collection of native attire that was acquired during Dr. and Mrs. Gonzalez’s 4 trips around the world. The Revue, using local Nogalians as models, was presented along with the appropriate local music and background narrative.
Mrs. Gonzales was predeceased by her parents, Edward and Estella Noon, her siblings
Dr. Zenas B. Noon (Mary) and Walter Charles Noon (Eva), Gwendolyn Noon Barton and her husband, ‘Doctor’. Surviving Madeline are her nephews Zenas B. Noon, Jr. (Joyce), George P. Noon (Bonnie), Edward C. Noon (Lily) and Walter Charles Noon, Jr. (Sue), her nieces Diane Noon Matsch (Lee), Sylvia Noon Ilan (Amos), Madeline Noon Arriaga (Rene) and Rochelle Noon Holler. Also surviving are 20 grand nieces and nephews and 28 great grand nieces and nephews."
Whether Mrs. Gonzalez was traveling around the world by freighter, square dancing, bowling or accompanying Doctor to the wrestling matches, she provided strong incentive to the Noon family to live life to its fullest.”
