Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gooden, David A., 1983 

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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, 
Delaware, 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.


David A. "D.A." GOODEN (Sr.), retired Camp logging contractor, 
Navy veteran of WW-I, 
Elizabethtown, NC native, d. 10 Mar 1983, age 91, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 18B*), Franklin, 
   12 Mar 1983, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 17, 1983, pp. 8A-9A 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 


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