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Hi Ransomnote!

Sorry to be a lost little lamb just posting away on the old thread, taking up where I left off! LOL!

I posted this on the previous thread. defconw and sytlin19a were peering into the Noonan question:

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texokie writes:
FWIW, Amelia Earhart’s navigator was Fred Noonan. Any connection to “Dmitri?”

His Wiki page shows:
Noonan married Josephine Sullivan in 1927 at Jackson, Mississippi. After a honeymoon in Cuba, they settled in New Orleans.

AND
1937 was a year of transition for Fred Noonan, whose reputation as an expert navigator, along with his role in the development of commercial airline navigation, had already earned him a place in aviation history. The tall, very thin, dark auburn-haired and blue-eyed 43-year-old navigator was living in Los Angeles. He resigned from Pan Am because he felt he had risen through the ranks as far as he could as a navigator, and he had an interest in starting a navigation school. In March, he divorced his wife, Josie, in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Two weeks later, he married Mary Beatrice Martinelli (born Passadori) of Oakland, California. Noonan was rumored to be a heavy drinker. That was fairly common during this era and there is no contemporary evidence Noonan was an alcoholic, although decades later, a few writers and others made some hearsay claims that he was.[6][7]

I was looking to see if there was an offspring, but the page did not mention it.

It appears, without in depth probing that the Dmitri Noonan is not a direct offspring of that other well known aviator Noonan.

Verified that here:

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/noonan/907/

Occupation Navigator
Spouse(s) Josephine Sullivan (divorced)
Mary Bea Noonan
Children none
Parents Joseph T. Noonan
Catherine Egan

OK - no bunnies in that hole. Was worth a shot.

Noonan is not a super common name - but there are probably a lot of them out there. What happens if I look up “Dmitri Noonan?”

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OK did a cursory search on “Dmitri Noonan” and this curiosity popped up:

https://www.business2community.com/us-news/malia-obama-boyfriend-busted-streaking-naked-harvard-campus-fake-news-01996742

The article itself says the following is completely false:

“...Two students were cited after campus security observed them “streaking” across the Northeastern parking lot near the McDonnell Dormitory at around 1:30 a.m. Friday morning.

Malia Obama, 19, and DMITRI NOONAN, 24, were seen holding hands and running through the parking lot while yelling what appeared to be “how you like me now [expletive deleted].”

The pair will be charged with public indecency, fined $500 each by the school, and placed on academic probation for the remainder of the semester. Another offense could lead to expulsion....”

“However, there is no truth to the story. What was the problem with the story to make it false? For one thing, Harvard’s college newspaper is not “The Sentinel” but rather is The Harvard Crimson. And, that college newspaper does not have any stories on Malia Obama pertaining to her running naked through campus. Additionally, the link provided in the fake news goes to a “Trump sucks” website.”