Donald Noble Scofield

Donald Noble Scofield was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Gladys Noble and Arthur L Scofield, July 2, 1930. His beloved home church was Baptist Temple in Brooklyn, where he was baptized Easter Sunday Evening,1941, by his pastor, Clarence Roddy. He attended Public school 139 and Erasmus Hall High School. Don received the James H. Killough Scholarship his enabled him to attend Columbia University.
During his Senior year in high school and four summers of college, he worked as an office boy at the Wall Street law firm of Hughes, Hubbard and Reed—part-time during the school year and full time in the summer.
At the beginning of his freshman year in college, he felt the call to the Christian ministry. Upon
graduation from Columbia in 1952, he entered Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. In the fall of 1953, while studying at Eastern, he received one of the graduate school scholarships to the University of Pennsylvania which was granted to the seminary. For the next two years he divided his time between his studies at Eastern and Penn. In 1955 he received an M.A. from Penn; in 1956, a B. D. from Eastern Seminary.
In the summer of 1953 Don worked at the Penn Fishing Reel Factory. The three summers following, he was as a relief teller in the branches of the First Pennsylvania Company. During his student days in Philadelphia he also served as part-time sexton of the Chestnut Hill Baptist Church where his brother, Willard, was pastor.
While attending the Chestnut Hill Church, he met Ruth C. Mitchell. She was born in London, England to Scottish parents. Her father was a Baptist minister who pastored churches in London and Gateshead, England. In 1947 she moved with her parents to the United States and attended Wheaton College in Illinois. Upon graduation she took a job with a pension consulting firm in Philadelphia and started attending the Chestnut Hill Baptist Church. They were married in January of 1957.
Don pastored three churches: First Baptist Church of Oxford, PA: 1956-1965; New Monmouth Baptist Church, Middletown, NJ: 1965-1988; and First Baptist Church, Rahway, NJ: 1988-1995.
In November, 1995, Don and Ruth moved to Penney Retirement Community. Over the years, Don served in various volunteer services at PRC. Among his services were a number of years as chaplain at Penmor Place as well as meal server there. In 2001 he served as Moderator of Penney Memorial Church. Ruth preceded Don in death in 2011, after long illness.
June 15, 2013, Don married a native of Rome, Georgia—Jane McCurry Music, a resident of PRC and the widow of a Methodist minister who had served in the Louisville Annual Conference in Kentucky.
Don passed from this earth to meet his Savior, Jesus, April 18 at his home in Penney Retirement Community in Penney Farms Florida. He is survived by his wife, Jane, a nephew and several nieces.

A Graveside Service will be held at 10:00 am, Monday, April 23, 2018 at Penney Farms Retirement Cemetery.
A Memorial Service will be held at 10:00 am, Monday, April 30, 2018 at Penney Memorial Church.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Penney Memorial Resident’s Aid Fund, P.O. Box 555, Penney Farms, FL.