Obituary of Essie Goff, Mississippi Co, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Pamela Johnson Great-granddaughter Date: 15 Apr 2002 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** A tribute published in the pages of the Blytheville Courier News, Blytheville, Arkansas, July 8, 1961. Mrs. Goffs' Rites Sunday Services for Mrs. Essie Goff who died here yesterday will be held tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at the First Church of the Nazarene. She was 81. Revs. Harold Thompson, Harold Ray and C.E. Fleshman will officiate with burial in Maple Grove Cemetery, Cobb Funeral Home in charge. Mrs. Goff was a native of Jackson, Tenn and had lived here since 1919. She was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene. She leaves three sons, Velmer Goff, Dallas Goff and Grady Goff all of Blytheville. Five daughter, Mrs. Dallas Funderburk, Modesto, Calif., Mrs. Fred Burgeson of Blytheville, Mrs. D.W. Self of Idabel, Okla., Mrs. J.R. Johnson of Leighton, Ala. and Mrs. Harve Haney of St. Louis, Mo., 40 grandchildren, 66 great-grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Charles Mullins, Jimmy Forsythe, Ulice Nichols, Harley Hinson, James Bailey and Louis Salmons.