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100-Year Birthday
By TIMES STAFF
Published April 18, 2007
Evelyn Jeanette Bradley Noa of Gulfport will celebrate her 100th birthday Monday. She was born April 23, 1907, in West Haven, Conn., the daughter of Orlando Bradley and Susan (Bell) Bradley. On June 21, 1926, she met and married John Noa in New Haven, Conn. Together, the couple had two children, Ernestine Noa Hines and Jack Noa. They later moved here in 1953 from Hamden, Conn. During the 1960s, Noa worked at the St. Petersburg Times. Noa is a member of United Methodist Church of Gulfport. She enjoys sewing, painting with oils, traveling to Caribbean islands and abroad to Egypt and Greece, listening to audio books, and knitting. Noa was a volunteer for many years at Childs Park, where she worked with children. She also aided children in hospitals and handicapped children in Jamaican orphanages. Noa has seven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and five great-great-grandchildren.
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