Noeline passed away on 13 July 2021 in Brisbane, Australia aged 94 years.

After leaving Wellington Girls' College, Noeline attended Victoria University receiving BA and MA degrees in History and undertook teacher training in Auckland.  Whilst at university she met Sydney Hall.  He went on to do his PhD (Geophysics) in London where she joined him and shortly after they married in 1951.  

In London Noeline worked both as a teacher and librarian at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College before having two children in the 1960s.  In 1968 the family moved to Brisbane where Sydney took a job as Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland.  Noeline worked as Librarian at Somerville House school before taking a job as a Tutor and then Lecturer in European History at the University of Queensland until her retirement in 1997.

As well as writing articles in History journals, Noeline also wrote two books - I Have Planted; a biography of Alfred Nesbit Brown, a missionary in New Zealand as well as A Legacy of Honour: The Centenary History of Somerville House.

Noeline spoke fondly of her years as a student at Wellington Girls' College.  She is survived by Sydney, her husband of almost 70 years, as well as her 2 children and 4 grandchildren.