The Noë Family from the Meetjesland in Belgium: the Wachtebeke branch

C VIII b         Henri Noë

fs Ivo Franciscus and Catharina Boone       brother of August

° Zelzate 2/6/1879
x Bassevelde 30/5/1906 Leontine De Pape
† Overslag 3/9/1959

He married in Bassevelde on 30/5/1906 with Leontine De Pape.  She was born in Bassevelde on 12/10/1877, the eldest daughter of Engelbert De Pape and Clementine De Langhe.

They continued the exploitation of his father's farm in the St. Elooispolder in Wachtebeke-Overslag.

Like his father Henri was for many years active as a town councellor.

Henri and Leontine happily celebrated their golden wedding jubilee (50 years) but a little more three years later he died on the farm on 3 September 1959.  Leontine died in the arms of her daughter Aline in Zaffelare on 13/2/1969.

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Henri and Leontine had 12 children all born in the Overslag:

1. Willem was born on 13/4/1907.  He was a brilliant and well known Jesuit priest.  He was ordained a priest on 10 June 1933. He died on 24 July 1946 after a long illness.
2. Maurice was born on 14/9/1908 and died there on 26/11/1908.
3. Johanna, his twin sister died on 30/11/1908.
4. Marie-Madeleine was born on 24/9/1909.  She became Sister Marie-Madeleine, a cloistered discalced Carmelite anchoress.  She died in Ghent on 27/10/1989 after a long illness.
5. Urbain was born on Christmas Day in 1910.  On 22 February 1938 in Boekhoute he married Clara De Jonghe.  She was born there on 24 September 1901.  They took over the farm of her parents in the Posthoorn in Boekhoute.  They had no children.  Clara died in the Maria Middelares Hospital in Ghent on 27/9/1987 and less than a year later on 7/10/1988 Urbain died in Boekhoute.
6. Gabriella was born on 15/10/1912.  She died in the Overslag barely 3 and a half months old on 28/1/1913.
7. Joris was born on 30/10/1913. He became a priest on 24 August 1945.  He was a very well known educator and author of a series of acclaimed schoolbooks used for many years in all the Catholic schools of Flanders.  He died in Ghent on 27/3/1982.
8. Albert was born on 14/7/1915.  He became a Franciscan priest (Minorite).  After a spell as a prisoner of war he was ordained a priest in Leuven on 2/8/1942.  On 20 February 1945 he left for Chili.  And from 1948 till 1960 he was maths and physics professor at the Seminario Franciscano at La Serena. When his health failed he came back to Belgium.  He died on 23 February 1992 in the Maria Middelares Hospital in St.-Denijs-Westrem (Ghent).
9. Raymond was born on 7/11/1916.  He continued the family farm in the St. Elooispolder.  On 12 May 1948 he married Irma De Letter.  She was born on 23/11/1923.  They had 8 children and 7 grandchildren.  Raymond died in the Overslag on 8 June 2005.
10. Aline was born on 2 June 1918.  On 22 August 1947 in the Overslag she was married to René Van Hecke, a florist from Zaffelare.  He was born there on 24/11/1912. They have two daughters and one son and 7 grandchildren.  René died in Ghent on 7/5/1973.  And Aline died, also in Ghent, on 30/5/1989.
11. Marie-Louise was born in the Overslag on 17/8/1920.  On 8 December 1950 she started her life as a nun with the Cistercian Sister in Ghent.  And now she studied to become a nurce.  On 12 August 1952 she took her religious vows and became Sister Assumpta.  She was respected by everyone who knew her for the many many years of devoted service she gave to the Maria Middelares Hospital in St.-Denijs-Westrem (Ghent).  In 2001 she celebrated her golden jubilee. And finally on 1 February 2007 here in her hospital where she had helped so many patients she quietly passed away.
12. Jozef was born on 15/4/1922.  He married Elfrieda, Raimond's sister-in-law in Wachtebeke on 16/7/1949. Se was born there on 19/5/1928.  About a month after their wedding they emigrated to Detroit in the United States of America.  They lived for quite a few years in La Porte, Indiana.  They have 8 children and 2 grandchildren. Joseph died on 24 July 1992.