Dr. Judith Noble Halle, medical educator and researcher, wife, mother, and horse breeder, went to be with God on March 8, 2026, due to a sudden, severe cardiac condition. Dr. Halle lived in Buckhannon and Rock Cave, WV, beginning in 2000 when she moved from the Los Angeles, CA, area, where she grew up.
Born in 1946 in Whittier, CA, Dr. Halle’s career followed in the footsteps of her parents, who spent their lives crafting braces for disabled children and adults. Dr. Halle devoted her professional life to caring for mothers and infants in labor and delivery and to educating health care professionals.
She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in nursing in 1968, then pursued a career in labor and delivery nursing, research, and administration. She later returned to UCLA to obtain her doctorate in nursing, graduating in 1996.
Her research helped to make a change in the national standard of medical care for newborns at risk of cerebral palsy and gained her the honor of “Graduate Woman of the Year.” She later taught nursing and physiology at UCLA and West Virginia Wesleyan College.
In her personal life, Judy married her high school physics professor, Andreas Halle, in 1970 in Whittier, CA. The couple raised their two daughters, Christie and Ann, in the same area. She realized her childhood dream of having an Arabian horse breeding farm in Eden Hollow near Rock Cave, WV, and beautiful horses produced by her breeding efforts will delight her family and others for years to come. After Andy’s passing in 2011, she remarried in 2014 to her nursing and education colleague Dr. Susan Rice.
Judy is preceded in death by her parents, LeRoy and Eunice Noble; her older sister, Lee Vyscoskil; and her beloved husband, Andy. She is survived by her dear wife, Susan Rice; her two daughters, Christie Devlin and Ann Halle; and her two grandchildren, Brooke and Beau Bunton.
Continuing her life-long dedication to the education of medical professionals to the very end, Dr. Halle chose to donate her body to science through West Virginia University.
A memorial service for her will be held at the Wesley Chapel at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, WV, at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 21. A reception in her honor will be held in the same building immediately after the service.
All are invited to remember Dr. Halle via her online memorial at https://www.mykeeper.com/JudithHalle. In lieu of flowers or other gifts, her family requests that donations be made to the Brooklyn Friends School in Brooklyn, NY, in honor of her father, LeRoy E. Noble, who attended there.
