Hendry County FlArchives Obituaries.....Goodno, Edgar Everett December 12, 1936
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/fl/flfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Cynthia Stanton http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00029.html#0007059 August 10, 2010, 7:00 am

Fort Myers News-Press, 13 Dec 1936
          E. E. Goodno Dies From Heart Attack;
                    Was Early Pioneer
                   _____________________
 
             Built Up Cattle Business, Groves:
              Was Merchant; Founded LaBelle
                   _____________________

     Edgar Everett Goodno, 78-year-old Southwest Florida cattleman and real 
estate developer, died suddenly yesterdy morning as the result of a heart 
attack suffered while he was enroute from Punta Rassa to Fort Myers.  Mr. 
Goodno was in apparently good health Friday but yesterday morning he felt ill 
and asked friends to drive him to Fort Myers.  Death overtook him on the way 
to town.
     Mr. Goodno came to Fort Myers in 1891 from Winfield Kas. and lived here 
three years before going to LaBelle where he became a merchant, grove owner, 
hotel operator and cattleman.  He founded LaBelle and Goodno.  He traded some 
orange river property for 5,000 head of cattle in the Kissimmee valley and 
then proceded to improve his stock by importing blooded bulls from the middle 
west.  His best known venture as a cattleman was importing a herd of sacred 
Brahman bulls from India.
     Today the result of the importation of these  large, humpbacked cattle 
can be seen on the stock of Southwest Florida.  Mr. Goodno, a lover of fine 
animals, also imported horses, sheep and goats and made a success of raising 
them.  In 1909, Mr. Goodno built an electric and ice plant near LaBelle.  He 
improved his 8,000-acre ranch until it was a show place.  This ranch was 
purchased in 1917 by Henry Ford and still belongs to the motor manufacturer, 
who was one of Mr. Goodno's close friends.
     During more recent years, Mr. Goodno has been interested in the 
development of Punta Rassa where he owned 1,200 acres of land.  This tract 
sold at a fabulous price 1926 but Mr. Goodno got back title in the past few 
years and had plans for its development at the time of his death.  He is 
survived by a brother, H.J. Goodno of Newkirk, Okla. and an adopted son, 
Dennis Small of LaBelle.
     Funeral services will be held at 3:o'clock Monday afternoon at the 
Engelhardt funeral home where the body was taken yesterday.  The Rev. A. M. 
Glisson of LaBelle will officiate and burial will be at the Fort Myers 
cemetery.



Additional Comments:
Henry Ford actually became owner of all of Goodno's LaBelle property in 1924, 
not 1917.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/fl/hendry/obits/g/goodno34ob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/flfiles/

File size: 3.0 Kb