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Note: the Washington Evening Journal, a newspaper in Washington, Iowa. ************************************************* Charles L. Goodell, 58, manager of the Montgomery Ward Store in Washington since 1961 and an active resident of the community, died unexpectedly Saturday night, April 8, 1972. Mr. Goodell died at his home after returning earlier in the day from the hospital where he had been hospitalized about one week. The funeral will be Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. in the United Methodist Church here with the Rev. M. O. Smith and the Rev. Tom Pace in charge. Graveside rites will be held in Primghar Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. A memorial fund has been established and contributions may be left at Sherman-Eden Funeral Home where friends may call until Tuesday morning. Mr. Goodell was born in Rutland, Iowa January 22, 1914, a son of Ray and Musa Sherman Goodell. He was reared in Rutland and Primghar and attended Morningside College. He was married June 16, 1937 to Rowena M. Brown. He was a member of the United Methodist church. Mr. Goodell has managed Montgomery Ward stores in North Dakota, Nebraska and at Mason City before coming to Washington. He had been president of the Minot, North Dakota, Kiwanis Club and also belonged to the Masonic Lodge and Shrine Club there. In Washington he currently was serving as president of the Retail Merchants Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce and was active in the De-Men's Club. Music was one of his special interests and he was a director of the United Methodist Church choir here. He also had directed the Scotsman Chorus at Minot, the church choirs at Dickinson, N.D., the Apollo Community chorus at Columbus, Neb., and a similar group at Mason City. He also had a singing and acting role in this year's Y's Men's musical. Surviving are his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Ray (Sandra) Balfour of Philadelphia, Pa.; three sons: Greg, a senior at University of Iowa, Gary, a freshman at UNI, and Jeff at home; three grandchildren. Also surviving are one brother, Erwin of Davenport; two sisters, Mrs. Nels (Maurine) Lindhart and Mrs. Marjorie Davenport, both of Humboldt. ******************************************************* ******************************************************* The following article appeared on April 11, 1972 on the editorial page of the Washington Evening Journal. ****************************************************** Tribute To Charley Goodell By Bill Shannon It was another sad week-end. Members of the Charles Goodell family lost their loving husband, father and grandfather, this community lost a dedicated and willing worker, the Montgomery Ward store lost a mighty good manager and we lost one of our best friends. A short time ago Charley was elected president of the Retail Merchants Bureau of the Washington Chamber of Commerce. He was to have presided at the first meeting of that group this morning. That meeting has been cancelled and the members sadly will be attending Charley's funeral instead. Charley was one of the most versatile fellows I ever knew. He was a man of so many talents and he shared those talents with his fellow citizens and for the good of the community. He had one of the finest singing voices hereabouts. He was choir director at the United Methodist Church. He had appeared in several of the Y's Men's home talent plays--especially the musicals. He had practiced with the cast for this year's presentation "Fiddler On The Roof". A few years ago he literally stole the entire audience with his never-to-be-forgotten rendition of "Old Man River". A former athlete himself, he took special pride in the athletic careers of his two older sons, Gregg and Gary, both of whom were outstanding for Washington High School. The second son, Gary, holds the high school record in both the 120 yard and 180 yard low hurdles, and along with three other teammates last year set a new record in the 880 yard relay. Yes, Charley, was proud of these accomplishments, but he was so well rounded that he was equally proud of his sons' good grades, musical accomplishments and other curricular activities. With two boys in college, he contracted for summer paint jobs. Gregg and Gary would paint when they had free time and their dad, after a busy day at the Ward store, would join them at night or on a day or two of vacation, wielding a brush right along with them to provide funds for college. We understand the Goodell trio turned out a paint job which pleased every client. Charley was one of my mushroom buddies. Usually our finds weren't very great. We chuckled many times, though, about the great patch we found on one occasion. It was near a dead elm tree right in the middle of a bunch of brambles. We sustained many scratches, but we filled two large sacks with mushrooms. I can see him yet fighting his way through those brambles but grinning delightedly all the while as he picked away. Members of the Washington Coffee Club enjoyed the meeting most when Charley presided. He had such a quick, cute, sense of humor. He could ad lib with the best of them--and did. He wasn't privileged to stay around to see how their third son, Jeff, now in grade school, turned out. But we're betting that with the early training Charley and Rowena gave Jeff, and with the added inspiration and memory of a great dad, Jeff will do justice to the family name of Goodell just as his older sister and two older brothers have done. Charley spent 37 years with Montgomery Ward, 11 of them here in Washington. And this is a better community because he and his family lived here more than a decade. ********************************************* Other source: http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=akin&id=I08500
Note: The following obituary appeared on April 10, 1972 on the front page of
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