Noble Rider

To view additional photos of Noble, click on "View Photo Galleries" in the left panel. Noble Seth Rider was born April 8, 1929 to Clyde Orville and Corah Ann (Barnett) Rider in Ok OK, the youngest of 9 children. He ran barefoot, skinny dipped in the creeks, and ate watermelon from the local fields. But financially, life was hard and the family heard the call of broomcorn. They moved to Campo (with Noble driving the old truck part of the way) when he was 12 years old. After some time of “camping” along a creek, they purchased the Campo Motel and moved it east of Campo. Noble lived on the home place the rest of his life, and that is where he passed from this life on August 2, 2016. March 28, 1950, Noble married Doris Nadine Houser in the presence of Nadine’s parents in Clayton, NM. Noble’s parents didn’t attend, but they did pay for Noble’s new shoes so that he wouldn’t wear cowboy boots to be married in! Then Noble and Nadine headed to OK to visit Noble’s brother for their honeymoon – accompanied by his parents! This good marriage lasted over 66 years. Noble loved farming and ranching. Baca County was “about the prettiest place in the world to live,” he said, after visiting the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore. He would sing at the top of his lungs up and down the rows. He could look over a herd of cattle and tell you exactly which one was missing. He would purchase sickly calves and raise them to health and profit. (But he couldn’t raise a pig!) Noble also loved hunting. Every year, a contingent of relatives and friends, mainly from OK, would arrive to go into the mountains. Months of planning and talking went into the event. Guns, ammo, hunting licenses, food and clothing had to be prepared. Year after year, he never tired of it. And he never tired of the food that Nadine canned for him: vegetable soup, chili, potato soup, etc. She spoiled him completely. Fishing helped him adjust to the retirement years. He loved to take his brother-in-law, Garrold Houser, to Etling Lake. But he got tired of eating the fish, so he would drive up and down the streets of Campo until he found someone to give it to. In his later years, Noble was involved in the Gideons, Int. He passed out Bibles at the Trinidad College, in schools, on Gobler’s Knob, etc. Noble was preceded in death by his parents, 7 siblings and their spouses (George William (Juanita), Royal Fred (Mary), Carl Bertram (Mayme), Marjorie June (Omer), James Orville (Belva), Robert Preston (Alberta), and Doris Adilla (Leon)). He is survived by one sister, Edna Ownbey Barlow, by his precious wife, Nadine, and 4 children: Alfred Lynn (Carol), Janice Linette (Vernon) Finck, Nicky Gene (Janice), and Boyd Douglas (Janette). Grandchildren are: Lonn (Julie), Kevin (Rylon), David (Crystal), Maelisa, Dary (Anna), Rashae, Lani, Devin and Deanna. Six great-granddaughters, Emma, Allie, Becca, Sydney, Shelby, and Kinza, brought tremendous joy to Noble, and he named them all every night in his prayers. Also included in those prayers were his many nieces and nephews and their children. In fact, it was just after finishing family devotions, reading the Bible and praying for each family member, and every other person that he could remember who needed prayer – especially those that he thought were not in a right relationship with God—that he headed toward bed, brushed his teeth, and then slumped quietly into the seat of his walker. A quiet, peaceful entry into Heaven! The family requests donations, in lieu of flowers, to be given to Gideons International (PO BOX 203, Springfield, CO 81073) or Baca County Hospice (373 East 10th Ave. Springfield, CO, 81073) in Memory of Noble.