Warren Gerald Noland

   Funeral services for Warren Gerald Noland, 88, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, will be Friday, October 25th,at 3 PM, in the Hilltop Baptist Church in Alto, Texas with Rev. Forrest Crawford officiating. Burial will follow at the Old Palestine Cemetery near Alto. There will be a visitation from 2-3 PM Friday, at the church before services start. Warren passed away October 20, 2024 in Tyler, Texas. He was born June 1, 1936 in Aztec, New Mexico to Myron Gerald Noland and Lorita Bertrum Noland. Warren lived most of his life in Las Cruces, New Mexico and had received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at New Mexico State University. He received his Doctorate from Ohio State university and had last worked as Associate Dean of Human and Community Service at New Mexico State University. He had also worked as an Ag teacher at Axtec High School and Elida High School in New Mexico, Ag professor at  Oklahoma State University and NMSU and worked in the Republic of Yemen after retirement where he helped start a college. Warren was recognized as a distinguished alumni at NMSU and loved watching the football and basketball games there. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Las Cruces. Warren was preceded in death by his parents, daughter Lynda McCameron, and grandson Avery Jackson Dunphy. He is survived by Children Leslie Owens and husband Kevin of Alto and Gary Noland and wife Carmon of Chickasha, Oklahoma, brother William Myron Noland, grandchildren Brittany Young and husband Travis, Danika Thompson and husband Miles, Jaymin Jackson and wife Tiffany, Talley Gresham and husband Joshua, Olivia Noland Elliot and husband Ethan, Madeline Wessel and husband Justin and Kayla Nelson and husband Stephen and Meredith Noland, great grandchildren Blair Young, Landon Young, Braxton Jackson, Nolie Gresham, Hayes Gresham, Reese Gresham, Jude Denver Gresham, Parker Elliot, Mason Lee Wessel, Mabel Joyce Wessel, Payson Nelson and Lyndon Nelson.

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