Notes for Orville August NODING


Orville Noding was born in the farm house with his grandmother acting as midwife. He attended a country school and Westbrook High School, taking second highest grades in Aviation Aeronautics. He farmed land near his father's farm until his marriage when he moved to the Habberman farm in Murray County. He farmed there from 1947 till 1950 when he moved to his present farm in Swift County near Danvers, Minnesota.

On September 23, 1947, he married Eunice Polk at Buffalo Lake, Minnesota in a single ring ceremony solemnized by Rev. Otto Kreuger, a pastor formerly of Westbrook and the minister who confirmed Orville.
After twenty-eight years of marriage, Eunice petitioned for a divorce which was granted in June 1976. Orville was granted custody of the three minor children, Tamara, Karen, and Joel.