Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Goodemoot, Rex W. March 10, 2004
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, March 11, 2004
Rex W. Goodemoot, aged 70, of Lake Odessa, passed away at his home early 
Wednesday morning, March 10, 2004.  He was born June 20, 1933 to Don and Sadie 
(Fox) Goodemoot.

He had been a member of the lake Odessa High School Class of 1951. On 
September 23, 1950, he married Eunice Roberts, and for 53 years they've lived 
at the corner of Goodemoot and Harwood roads.  The blue shop was a favorite 
gathering place and fix-it spot for many friends. If it had to be fixed, 
welded, rebuilt or built from the ground up, Rex was the man for the job.

Rex had worked at numerous jobs, from school bus driver to business owner. He 
worked at the bowling alley, 20 years for Lake Foods and 12 years at Cadwell 
Brothers before retiring in 1998.  After retirement he went back to school and 
began a new career as a crop adjuster for National Crop Insurance Co. that 
continued until the onset of his illness.

Rex loved life, and included in that was fishing, bowling, hunting, farming, 
canning, tinkering, and laughing with his great friends and family.  He was a 
wonderful husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, engineer, inventor, 
whistler, teacher and friend.  In addition to all these things, Rex was 
blessed with a golden voice that is now singing with the angels.

Rex is survived by his loving wife, Eunice; daughters, Pam (Mark) Carpenter, 
Kitty (Bob Edgerle) Lawson, Angie (Kurt) Campbell, and Darci (John) Scheidt; 
son, Tim (Kay) Goodemoot; grandchildren, Mandee, Adam, Jay, Josh, Ashleigh, 
Megan, Tory, Dan, McKall, Marley, Sadah, and Drake; great-grandchildren, Mason 
and Hannah; sisters, Helen Robinson and Peg Faulkner; brother, Don (Bernie) 
Goodemoot; mother-in-law, Virginia Roberts; sisters-in-law, Lois Goodemoot, 
Irene (Russ) Ames, Margene Taylor, Ruth Ann (Dick) Hamilton, and Madeline 
Goodemoot; brother-in-law, Lee (Joyce) Roberts; many other family members, 
friends, and his church family at Central United Methodist Church.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Don and Sadie Goodemoot; father-in-
law, Roy Roberts; brothers and sister, Francis and Ethel Goodemoot, John and 
Marian McDowell, Ford and Lorraine Goodemoot, and Myron Goodemoot; brothers-in-
law, Jim Taylor, Gary Roberts, Lyle Faulkner, Ray Livermore, and Doc Robinson; 
and special nephew, Ford McDowell.
The family will receive relatives and friends at the Koops Funeral Chapel in 
Lake Odessa on Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m., and on Friday from 4 to 7 p.m.  A 
Service of Celebration for Rex's life will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at 
the Central United Methodist Church in Lake Odessa.

Private family interment will take place in Lakeside Cemetery.  The family has 
suggested that memorial contributions in Rex's name may be made to the Ionia 
Area Hospice.


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