Bladen County NcArchives Obituaries.....Gooden, David Austin 1983 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bruce Saunders bs4403@verizon.net December 10, 2012, 5:30 pm THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 03-17-1983, P. 8A-9A DAVID AUSTIN GOODEN FRANKLIN – A funeral service with Masonic Rites for David A. (D.A.) Gooden, 91, was held Saturday at 3 p.m. in Poplar Spring Cemetery by the Revs. Robert D. Fridley and Donald Lee Harris. Wright Funeral Home had charge. Gooden died Thursday in a hospital. A native of Elizabethtown, N.C., he had retired as a logging contractor from Old Camp Manufacturing Co., now Union Camp Corp. He was a Navy veteran of World War I. Gooden was the oldest member of High Street United Methodist Church in Franklin and its men’s Bible class, and Franklin American Legion Post 73. He was a member of the Franklin Masonic Lodge 151, Mount Nebo Royal Arch Chapter 20, Portsmouth Commandery 5, Khedive Temple of the Shrine, Suffolk Shrine Club and Franklin Knights of Pythias. He was a charter member of Franklin Moose Lodge 1573 and the Franklin, Delaward, and Camp P.D. hunt clubs. Survivors include his wife, Jeanne Caddell Gooden; two sons, D.A. Gooden Jr. of Bethesda, Md. and Robert T. Gooden of Jacksonville, Fla.; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/bladen/obits/g/gooden3060gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb