Mary L. Noyes, 88, passed away in the early morning on Saturday, June 19, 2021, at the Central Vermont Hospital in Berlin. Born in Jonesville, VT, on February 11, 1933, she was the youngest of the six children of the late Walter and Agnes (Pecor) Kenyon. On March 6, 1954m Mary married Warren A. Noyes in Waitsfield. Warren predeceased Mary on May 13, 2019.
Mary was a 1951 graduate of Waitsfield High School. As a young woman she worked for New England Telephone Company first in Albany, NY, and then in Burlington. While working and living in Burlington she met and later married Warren. After their marriage they settled in Moretown. Over the next several years Mary was busy and happy raising her family. She also worked at the Boudreau Nursing Home in Moretown while raising her four children.
She and Warren founded Noyes and Noyes Construction, building homes and developing properties in Central Vermont with the Noyes and Noyes Building Supply Company. In addition, she and Warren were proud to help their sons establish their own building supply companies. Mary was a member of the Queen Esther Chapter 7 OES of Waterbury.
Mary enjoyed flower gardening and spending winters in Plant City, FL, with Warren. Her greatest joy was her family. She is fondly remembered as a devoted and loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
She is loved and mourned by her family: her children Susan Nadeau and her husband Paul of Moretown, Gale Badeau and her husband Edgar of Waterbury Center, W. Dan Noyes and his wife Lola of Moretown, Steven Noyes and his wife Janet of Moretown as well as 13 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren; a sister Dorothy Wimble of Albany, NY; as well as extended family. Mary is predeceased by two brothers, Howard Kenyon and Stanley Kenyon, two sisters Shirley Fosters and Verna Mae Heath.
Funeral services will be held from the Wesley United Methodist Church in Waterbury on Friday, June 25, 2021, at 2 p.m. There will be a reception immediately following at the Waterbury Senior Center. Friends may call at Perkins-Parker Funeral Home in Waterbury on Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. Entombment will take place in Graves Cemetery in North Duxbury.
For those who wish, memorial gifts would be appreciated to the Waterbury Area Senior Center, 14 Stowe Street, Waterbury, VT 05676. To send online condolences visit www.perkinsparker.com.
