Isle of Wight-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Goodrich, William E., 1945 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ WILLIAM EDWIN GOODRICH W.E. GOODRICH, 70, NATIVE OF SURRY BURIED THURSDAY William Edwin Goodrich, 70, native of Surry County and a retired merchant of Smithfield, where he had made his home for the past 26 years, died at 6:35 a.m. March 20th at his home in Smithfield following a long illness. Funeral services were conducted Thursday at 3 p.m. at the grave in Old Saint Luke's Cemetery*, with Dr. J.C. Sinclair of Smithfield Methodist Church officiating. The funeral procession left the Goodrich home at 2:30 p.m. Mr. Goodrich is survived by his wife, Mrs. Cora Price Goodrich; a son, Baxter Goodrich, both of Smithfield; a brother R.L. Goodrich of Newport News, and three grandchildren. Active pallbearers were S.L. Goodrich, N.J. Brown, Stanley Brittle, Leroy Price, A.L. Goodrich and Robert Goodrich. William Edwin GOODRICH, retired merchant, Surry Co. native, d. 20 Mar 1945, at home, Smithfield, age 70, interred in St. Luke's Memorial Park*, Benns Church, 22 Mar 1945, "The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 27, No. 52, Mar. 28, 1945, p. 1, col. 7 *Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} #18: http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html St. Luke's Memorial Park is adjacent to Old St. Luke's Church Cemetery - IWCHS GSSTF #17. Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Carolyn Keen (VAHistoricHouses@aol.com) & Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/g362w3ob.txt