Obituaries:  Ira J. Goode, Sabine Parish       G-300
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Apr 6, 1972
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net 




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Ira J. Goode

  Ira Jay Goode, 80, of Lake Charles, died March 28, in a Lake
Charles Hospital. Funeral services were held at 3 p.m., Wednesday,
March 29, in the North Chapel of the Hixson Funeral Home, with the
Rev. Larry Ramsour officiating. Burial was in the Magnolia Cemetery
in West Lake.

  A native of McMinnville, Tenn., Mr. Goode moved to Sabine Parish
in 1910, when, as a young man of nineteen years of age, he came to
be a school teacher in the Toro Community. For seven years, until
his enlistment in the United States Army, he taught school and
singing schools through the parish, with his activities being
centered in the Florien Community. following his discharge from
the army as a second leutenant, he settled in Lake Charles, later
moving to DeQuincy, where he was in the wholesale grocery, and
coffee roasting and sales business.

  In 1933, he entered the oil lease brokerage business. In DeQuincy
he was active in all school and civic affairs. He was a deacon of
the First Baptist Church there, and served as choir director and
Sunday School Superintendent for many years.

  He moved to Lake Charles in 1948. There he was an active member
of the Rotary Club, and a life deacon and Sunday school teacher in
the Trinity Baptist Church.

  Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Bertie Mae Goode; one son, Burton
Goode of Lake Charles; one daughter, Mrs. Keith Kent of Shreveport;
one brother, H. A. Goode of Nashville, Tenn.; one sister, Mrs. Jimmie
Elkins of Woodberry, Tenn.; and eight grandchildren.