Bit of History - May 12, 2021

Sometimes when I go browsing through the online newspapers, I don’t really have a goal in mind.  I look for something interesting or a name I recognize.  This week, I was looking through the papers from the 1940s when I saw the name Noel T. Adams, the person for whom the local ambulance service is named.  In the Oct 19, 1940 issue of the “St. Joseph News-Press”, the pastor of the Ridgeway Christian Church, Rev. Noel T. Adams left this area to report to Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis as a captain in the Corps of Chaplains.  He had served previously in France during WW1 and during WW2 would serve in Africa, Sicily, and Italy and according to a later article in the News-Press, he craved cornbread and milk during his time there.  He returned to Harrison County after the war.  The Noel T. Adams Ambulance District is named for him as he led the efforts to get it established. (St. Joseph News-Press, Dec 7, 1973).