Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  Paul Ray Goodman

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The Hominy News - Progress
Vol. 30, No. 12
Wednesday, March 21, 2001
Page 5

Paul Ray Goodman

Paul Ray Goodman was born October 16, 1930 in Appalachia, Oklahoma (an area 
near Keystone Dam).  He was the son of Earl and Jewell Goodman.  Paul was 
raised in a Christian home of the Assembly of God faith.  He accepted 
Christ as his personal savior at the age of thirteen at a church cap near 
Waurisha Creek in Osage County near Prue.  He attended school in Prue, but 
was required to quit in the ninth grade in order to help his mother raise 
his younger siblings when his father passed away.

Paul began a career as a fitter/welder in 1951 when he accepted employment 
with National Tank Company.  In 1962, he left National Tank to work for 
Con Rad Industries, where he continued to work as a fitter/welder until 
1974.  He then moved to a job with Miller Exchange.  He returned to Con 
Rad Industries in 1974, working for the next ten years before he retired 
in 1984, when the company closed its doors.  Paul spoke often of the good 
people he worked with, his friends, Herman Boyd, Ed Spencer and J. W. 
Caywood.

Paul and his wife, Cloan Pogue at a country western dance at the American 
Legion Hut in Cleveland, Oklahoma in the fall of 1952.  Paul and Cloan were 
married on August 7, 1954 in Hominy, Oklahoma.  They raised two children in 
the Prue area, Wendell and Lisa.  The couple had a wonderful life together 
and would have celebrated their forty-seventh anniversary this year.

Paul was an avid hunter and fisherman.  He loved playing cards, especially 
pitch and poker.  He passed away on Tuesday, March 13, 2001 at the 
Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of seventy years, 
five months and three days.  He was preceded in death by his parents.

Paul is survived by his wife, Cloan of the home; a son and his wife, 
Wendell and Kimberly Goodman of Prue, Oklahoma; a daughter, Lisa Ann 
Goodman of Midwest City, Oklahoma; three grandchildren, Candi Lea and 
Zachary Earl Goodman, both of Prue, Oklahoma and Lanie Ann Goodman of 
Midwest City, Oklahoma; three brothers, Eugene Goodman of Sand Springs, 
Oklahoma, Benny and Bobby Joe Goodman, both of Prue, Oklahoma; a sister, 
Mazie June Horton of Prue, Oklahoma; numerous nieces, nephews and cousins; 
and three aunts, Faye Morrison and Osta Watts, both of Harriet, Arkansas 
and Pearl Frailey of Owasso, Oklahoma.

Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, March 16, 2001 at the 
Woodland Cemetery Chapel in Cleveland, with Robert Annett officiating.  
Burial was under the direction of the Chapman-Black Funeral Home.