Extracted from The Demopolis Times (Demopolis, AL)
Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Louise Bailey Noland

Richardson, Texas -- Louise Bailey Noland (Wall), 93, a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother passed away on Sept. 9, 2004, at Richardson Regional Hospital in Richardson, Texas.

She was born in Randolph County, Alabama to Edgar Grubbs Bailey and Effie Hill Bailey on Feb. 8, 1911. She moved to Anniston, as a young girl with her parents and siblings, and graduated from Anniston High School in 1928. She moved to Tuscaloosa, in 1936 when her husband was assigned to duty with the Army R.O.T.C. at the University of Alabama. She started her real-estate business in 1956, and became the first woman member of the Tuscaloosa Board of Realtors that same year. She helped start the multiple listing service in May of 1971, sold her real estate business and commenced serving as Executive Secretary of the Tuscaloosa Boards of Realtors and served in that capacity until she retired in 1975. She is a past president of the Altrusa Club and the Hera Study Club, and was a charter member of the Tuscaloosa Preservation Society. She loved her church, and was a tireless and faithful member of the Tuscaloosa First Christian Church from 1936 until she moved to Texas in 2002. She was instrumental in helping to acquire the property for the current location of the First Christian Church on Paul Bryant Drive.

She is survived by her only child, son, Jerry E. Wall and his wife, Joyce P. Wall of Richardson, Texas; grandsons, Douglas Kallam Wall and wife Susan of Phenix City, and Jonathan David Wall and wife Teresa of Columbus, Miss.; step-granddaughters, Cynthia Tidwell Nelson and husband Rob of McKinney, Texas; Holly Tidwell Risser and husband David of Plano, Texas; great-granddaughters, Renee and Amanda Wall of Columbus, Miss.; sister Lurline Bailey McCarley of Huntsville; sister-in-law, Myrtle Shurett of Tuscaloosa; five nieces, and one nephew.

She was preceded in death by her parents, brother Rudolph Bailey and sister Mary Bailey Doss.

A celebration of her life will be held on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2004 at 2 p.m. at the First Christian Church, 627 Paul W. Bryant Drive, Tuscaloosa.

Memorials may be sent to the First Christian Church, Tuscaloosa.