JON C. LAKEY/SALISBURY POST John Noble is a long time councilmember for the town of East Spencer. East Spencer,North Carolina,11/26/19.

EAST SPENCER — Longtime East Spencer Alderman John Noble III died on Sunday, but the tenured civil servant’s reach and impact extended far beyond the small town he represented.

Noble spent more than four decades on East Spencer’s board of aldermen.

“John was one of the originals,” East Spencer Mayor Barbara Mallett said. “He was a servant. Everyone says, ‘Oh, public servant,’ but John was actually that.”

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Mallett noted how Noble’s contributions to the town did not stop at the town hall. He worked as a patrolman for the police department, as w

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