John Noble with grandsons B.J. Sherrill, Domonique Noble and Rashad Sherrill. 2009. Photo Mike London. Salisbury Post.

By Mike London

Salisbury Post

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EAST SPENCER — The Rowan County Sheriff’s Office announced on Tuesday that John Noble, who served with that office for almost four decades, has passed away.

Long before Noble was a police officer or a politician, he was a fine, two-sport athlete at Dunbar, the East Spencer school that educated Black students during segregation.

Noble graduated from the school in 1965 and spoke often about how proud he was to have worn the blue of the Dunbar Tigers. He was inducted into the Dunbar Hall of Fame in 2023.

Dunbar had no shortage of

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