Beckham County, OK - Obits: John Albert Goodwin, 1929
24 Feb 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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GOODWIN, JOHN ALBERT
(4 Apr 1929, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
J. A. Goodwin was born in Wisconsin, May 24, 1853, died at Elk City April
2, 1929, age 75 years, 10 months and 6 days.  Funeral services were held
in the school auditorium at Durham, Okla., at 2:30 p.m., Rev. Carl V.
Covey, officiating.  Interment in Durham cemetery.  Gentry-Killough in
charge.
Obituary.
John Albert Goodwin was born May 24, 1853, at Plattsville, Wisconsin and
departed this life at his home in Elk City, Oklahoma, April 2, 1929, at
the age of 75 years, 10 months and 6 days.
Mr. Goodwin was married to Miss Laura A. Hughs, December 2, 1891.  To this
union four children were born:  Walter A. of San Antonio, Texas; Mrs. Lily
Mae Butler of Rankin, Oklahoma; Robert L. of Durham and J. A. Goodwin,
Jr., of Elk City, Oklahoma.
The wife, four children, ten grandchildren and one brother, W. E. Goodwin
of Herndston, Oregon, survive.  Mr. Goodwin became a Christian in March,
1913, and joined the Broadway Baptist church of Fort Worth, Texas.  His
passing is the only death which has occurred in this family throughout
their thirty-eight years of married life.
Funeral services were conducted in the school auditorium at Durham,
Oklahoma, with Rev. Carl V. Covey, minister of the First Christian Church
of Elk City, Oklahoma, officiating.
Interment in Durham cemetery with Gentry-Killough in charge.

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