Noah Philip Romando, 19, resigned his soul to God on Tuesday, August 28, 2012, in Stony Point, Virginia. Noah was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 7, 1992.

He was a 2011 graduate of Albemarle High School, and at the time of his death, was starting his second year at Piedmont Virginia Community College. Noah was looking forward to transferring to James Madison University in 2013. Noah was an avid skateboarder and outdoorsman, and loved fishing with his dad and brother. He enjoyed playing church league softball every season with his father and their friends. Noah will be remembered by his friends and family as a kind and gentle soul, and a loving and loyal friend.

Noah, Lily and Andrew were members of the Church of the Incarnation of Charlottesville, Virginia. They shared their family's love of togetherness and could most often be found spending their free time together.

Noah, Lily and Andrew were preceded in death by their grandmother, Jane Forbes McLaughlin. Their mother, Elizabeth Walton, joined them in Heaven on Tuesday, August 28, 2012. Their grieving father's abiding love and adoration for each of his children will never diminish. Noah, Lily and Andrew leave behind their beloved father, Peter Romando; stepfather, Donald Walton; stepsiblings, Haley and Logan Walton; grandparents, Daniel and Janice Romando; grandfather, Philip McLaughlin and his wife, Paula aunt, Catherine Rehm and her husband, Michael; aunt, Christine Freitag and her husband, Albert; aunt, Constance Forkin and her husband Thomas; aunt, Irene Newman and her husband, Kenneth; uncle, Philip McLaughlin and his wife, Sherry; and cousins, Michael Rehm, Mallory and Ross Freitag, Daniel, Garrett and Connor Hanifin, Ashley, Kenneth and Ava Newman, and Stephen, Daisy and Philip III McLaughlin.

A funeral mass will be celebrated for Noah, Lily and Andrew, along with their mother, Elizabeth, at Saint Thomas Aquinas University Parish of Charlottesville at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 4, 2012. A reception and celebration of their lives will immediately follow the funeral mass in the parish hall. Flowers may be delivered to Saint Thomas Aquinas University Parish.

Contributions may be made to the Greater Greenbrier Valley Community Foundation, 109 South Jefferson Street, Lewisburg, West Virginia 24901, a fund established to benefit C.A.S.A., a non-profit organization for the protection of abused and neglected children.


 Published in the Daily Progress from September 2 to September 4, 2012