Herndon, Noel Elwood (Dr.)

Daily Oklahoman, The
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
December 19, 2003 page 18A

Noel Elwood Herndon, 81, born June 16, 1922 near Buffalo, Oklahoma, left this earth on December 17th to celebrate Christmas with Christ. He grew up in the panhandle during the dust bowl years, attended Business College in Kansas, and then joined the army corp at the beginning of WWII. He was trained as a co pilot on B17s and was assigned to the 835th Squadron of 486 Bomb Group at Sudbury. He flew 35 missions over Europe and was injured on his last flight. His commendations include the Purple Heart, Air Medal, 4 Oak Leaf Clusters and ETO with 2 battle stars. He returned to Oklahoma, began college at OU, married his wife, Cathy Hough, then graduated from OU and the OU School of Medicine in 1955. Dr. Herndon practiced family medicine in NW OKC for 40 years, treating hundreds of patients with love and kindness before retiring at 75. As a board certified family practioner, he held the office of President of the OKC Clinical Society as well as other local and state medical organizations. He was on staff at Baptist and Deaconess hospitals for over 30 years, serving as Chief of Staff at Deaconess in 1960 and was also the Medical Director at Lackey Manor for 25 years.

He is survived by his church family at Heritage Baptist Church, a body of believers that the Lord brought together in the Herndon home in 1980. He was the first elder at Heritage and a Bible teacher for years there and previously at Village Baptist. His greatest joys were His Lord, his family, and serving others.

He is also survived by his wife of 57 years, Cathy, three children and their spouses, Cindy and husband, Dr. Charles McWilliams, Susan and husband, Sam Ray; New Mexico and Mark Herndon and his wife Andrea, Dallas. Other survivors include grandchildren Aaron, Meredith, Molly, Heidi, Jennifer, Tonya, Jessie, Natalie, and many other relatives and friends.

A memorial celebration of his life will be held at 11:00 a.m. at Heritage Baptist Church, 14317 N. Council Rd., OKC. Visitation will be held at Vondel L. Smith & Son North on Friday, December l9th from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Heritage Baptist Church where they will be dispersed to charities designated by the family.

Sources: The Oklahoman;

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