Frank Robert Noonan ’41

Bob died of prostate cancer on Oct. 18, 2002, in Rochester, Mich. Born in Minneapolis, he attended the Blake School before graduating from Lawrenceville. With us for only freshman year, he transferred to the business school of the U. of Minnesota.

Bob was a founder of the Nesbitt Bottling Co. and then was president of North American Creameries, both in Minneapolis. Moving to the Detroit area in 1963, as vice president of Naegele Outdoor Advertising, he next became president of a division of Eller Outdoor Advertising. He left to start his own business, Robert Noonan Co. and then founded Media Six of Southfield, Mich.

Active in many civic and private organizations, primarily the United Way and the American Red Cross, he was president of Franklin-Wright Settlements and was very active in Kirk of the Hills Church in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Martha Larkin Noonan; two daughters, Lindsay McAuliffe and Lucy Noonan; two sons, Frank and Charles; as well as five grandchildren.

The Class of 1941