More detail on this person: ROSS E. NOAH ROSS E. NOAH Oregonian, The (Portland, OR) - Sunday, April 5, 1992 Ross E. Noah, a retired Army aviator, died Tuesday in a Vancouver, Wash., nursing home of a heart attack. He was 77. Mr. Noah was born Sept. 23, 1914, in Morrow County. He spent most of his childhood in Soap Lake, Wash. He graduated from high school in 1931 and attended Washington State College for two years. He was working for a construction company in Hawaii at the beginning of World War II. He enlisted in the Army on Dec. 8, 1941. He completed flight training at Fort Benning, Ga. He spent the rest of the war in the United States training glider pilots at Fort Bragg, N.C. He served in the Korean War. Later he was executive and maintenance officer at Camp Desert Rock, Nev., when the atomic bomb was being tested above ground. Mr. Noah saw 14 months of active duty in Vietnam in 1967-68 where he served as chief of Aviation Safety and Flight Standards for U.S. Army units. He retired from the Army in 1968 as a lieutenant colonel. He worked for a year for Air America in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and South Vietnam. He returned to the United States and traveled around the country before settling in Portland. As a retiree, Mr. Noah completed his bachelor's degree at Portland State University. Mr. Noah was a lifetime member of Disabled American Veterans and numerous other military and fraternal organizations. He leaves no known survivors. Funeral for Mr. Noah will be Monday at 1 p.m. in Mt. Scott Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Willamette National Cemetery.
Burial information: Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, OR
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