Noble: Magazine publisher dies

Associate life member Armond M. Noble, 77, Sacramento, CA, publisher, died of cancer Feb 1 2012, at Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento. He was born in New York  in 1934, and moved to California with his mother, Charmion Besoyan Noble, at the age of five. They subsequently lived in Sacramento, Livingston, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.

Fascinated with radio at an early age, he obtained an Amateur Radio license and was active with that service throughout his life. He held the call of N6WR at the time of his death. After serving in the U.S. Army in the Signal Corps, he began a career in radio and TV journalism, working at stations in Casper, WY, Billings, MT, Boise, ID, and Bakersfield, CA. Concerned that an accurate story of our involvement in Viet Nam was not being portrayed, he worked in Viet Nam in 1966-67 as a freelance journalist.

Upon his return, he moved to WOOD TV in Grand Rapids, MI where he wrote, filmed, edited and narrated documentaries. After a short time as news director at a station in Fargo, ND, he had the opportunity to return to Bakersfield, CA, and then moved to Sacramento to work in the Time-Life Bureau at the Capitol. He also worked at Channel 13 as a news film photographer and for KCRA radio in the news department. From 1971-2009 he published Worldradio, a monthly Amateur Radio magazine, and in 1976, he began International Travel News, and in 1984, Military, both of which are currently in publication.

He was a well-read man of many interests with an inquisitive mind and a thoughtful, generous spirit. He is survived by his wife of 43 years, Helen; his son, Aaron Noble, of Sacramento, and two granddaughters. No services were held. Memorial donations may be made to the Salvation Army or Fisher House Foundation.