Noah A Stodghill

Noah Alan Stodghill, loving husband, father and grandfather, passed away on July 19, 2024, after a brief illness. He was 82. Preceded in death by his daughter, Julie Stodghill Kieffer, and his brother, Jack Nicholson, Noah is survived by his wife, Nancy Ellen (Christenberry) Stodghill; his children, Laurie Stodghill McKinzie (Ron) and Michael Alan Stodghill; his grandchildren, Erin Kieffer Wagner (Mark), Bryan Russell McKinzie, and Megan McKinzie Melton (Steven); and his great-grandson, Andrew David Wagner.

Born in Lafayette, Indiana on November 30, 1941, to Noah Nesbitt Stodghill and Elizabeth LaVon (Eglen) Stodghill, Noah was known to his family as “Scrappy” growing up. He played football at Warren Central High School in Indianapolis, from which he graduated in 1959. The same year, he married Nancy, his high school sweetheart and love of his life, and celebrated 65 years of marriage with family and friends just weeks before Noah’s death.

Noah received his bachelor’s degree from Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana in 1963, where he was a proud member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Thereafter, he worked as a manager and executive at various companies, including a two-year stint as plant manager for Rockwell International in Taipei, Taiwan, before founding his own company, US Miniature Lamps, in the late 1980s.

Noah started his 50-plus year commitment to freemasonry by joining DeMolay as a teenager, and later, Oriental Lodge #500 in Indianapolis before transferring to Hamilton Lodge #533 in Fishers, Indiana. He served as Master of his Lodge on five occasions, was a 32nd-degree member of Scottish Rite Valley of Indianapolis, was active in the Murat Shrine, and was Worthy Patron of the Fishers Chapter of Eastern Star. A life-long avid reader, Noah was never happier than he was on the golf course. He fulfilled a lifelong dream of playing multiple courses in Scotland, played many other courses around the country and the world, and even achieved a hole-in-one in 2007 of which he was immensely proud. He will be most fondly remembered as a doting grandfather to his three grandchildren, whom he loved to take shopping for shoes and other things and on trips to Disney World.

Visitation will be held at Flanner Buchanan - Memorial Park on July 25, 2024, from 1pm to 3pm, with a memorial service immediately to follow. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Noah’s name to Hamilton Lodge #533 or another charity of choice.