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Marion County, Oregon
City View Cemetery, Salem
Enid News and
Eagle
July 2004
The funeral for Maitland "Brownie" Herbert Goodman, 87, of Salem, Oregon, will be 2:30 PM today at Virgil T. Golden Funeral Service, Salem, Oregon. Burial will follow in City View Cemetery.
He was born May 26, 1917, in Canton to David and Nina Goodman, and died Tuesday, July 6, 2004, in Salem, Oregon. Visitation will be 1 to 2PM Saturday before the service.
He spent his early youth in Canton, graduating from Canton high school in 1936. He worked during the depression years driving the town cattle from pasture to pasture and selling milk. He also worked at the drugstore in Canton. He attended Southwestern Oklahoma State University for one semester, later working for the gypsum plant in Southard until 1941.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in September 1941, and served in the Pacific. He was honorably discharged as a Technical Sergeant from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, December 27, 1945.
He attended Oklahoma A & M in the fall of 1946. He met and married Cleo Miller August 10, 1947. He graduated from the School of Air-conditioning and Refrigeration in 1948, obtaining work at the locker plant in Hennessey. He turned to Oklahoma A&M in September 1949, where he received his bachelors degree in industrial arts in 1951. He received his first teaching and coaching job at Ripley high school returning to Oklahoma A & M during the summer to complete his masters in secondary education in 1957.
In 1954, they moved to Jewel, Oregon, with four children. He worked as a superintendent of schools until 1965, when they returned to Oklahoma for three years. In 1968, they returned to Jewel. His professional career took him to Enid and Orlando, and Spray and Paisley, Oregon. He was a lifetime member in the Masonic Lodge in Clatskanie, Oregon, Lodge 133 in 1958; the Lakeview, Oregon, Lodge; and was an active charter member of the Lions International in Paisley.
In 1979, they retired to Salem, Oregon to be near their children. He was a member of Salem First Church of the Nazarene.
Surviving are his wife, Cleo; children, George Goodman, Linda Brown, Charlie Goodman and Dale Goodman; and 11 grandchildren.
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