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Daughter of
Wife of
Mother of
Juanita Elizabeth
(Nita) Goode Griffin
Birth: 09-10-1918 (or 1915)
Bridgeport, Texas
Death: 10-21-2006
Overton, Rusk county, Texas
Mom's Grave is in Mason Cemetery Arp, Texas Memorial at:
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken
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I was standing by the window
On a cold and cloudy day
When I saw the
hearse come rolling
To carry my mother away
Will the circle be unbroken
Bye
and bye Lord bye and bye
There's a better home a waiting
In the sky Lord in the
sky
I said to the undertaker
Undertaker please drive slow
For that body you are carrying
Lord I hate to see
her go
Well I followed close behind her
Tried to hold up and be brave
But I could not hide my sorrow
When
they laid her in that grave
I went back home Lord that home was lonesome
Since my mother, she was gone
All my
brothers and sisters crying
What a home so sad and alone |
I did not stand by the window,
I was just outside the room at the Nursing Home.
As they covered mother's body, put it on the roller
and rolled her body away.
Just before I had been alone with her and prayed.
Her Spirit had left many hours before.
I was at the cemetery when the hearse came rolling
in with my mother's body within.
I watched as every one when about there business.
Flowers and family members came.
Love ones for our Church Family also arrived.
After every one had said there good buys,
There where 3 red roses placed, just for mother,
One from each of her children.
All had left but, I remained.
Things stilled needed to be finished.
The grave was covered and the flowers where placed.
That is when I said "See you again by and by".
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| Juanita Elizabeth (Nita) Goode |
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| d. 21 Oct 2006 |
Mother:Juanita Elizabeth "Nita"Goode Griffin born to Olin B. Goode and Margaret Bell Sandefur Goode on 09-10-1918
She has had that year changed to 1915. Died 10-21-2006 at the N. Home in Overton Texas. Burial at Mason
Cem. Session C.
Mother was married 5 times.
The first time in July 14, 1933 to Anthony Wesley Pontremoli (Buster). Buster was killed by a train on May
12, 1935 in Odessa, Ector County, Texas. They had one child. Margaret E. Pontremoli born on May 16, 1934. Sis Married Hollis G. LaRoe April 1957 and they had one child Margaret Camille LaRoe on 10-14-1958.
2nd: Jack Hodges,
3rd: Roy Quarles,
4th: Charles DeCook
*Lee and Nita where married for 46 years untill his death in 1991. They
had two children: a girl (me) Diana Lee Griffin on 03-18-1949 And one son William Robert (Bill) Griffin on 12-20-1950,
| Margaret Elizabeth Pontremoli ( LaRoe) |
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| Diana & Bill Griffin Overton, Texas |
Nita had one brother, they where very close.
Robert Lester (Les & Snooks)Goode
| Robert Lester Goode (Les, Snooks) |
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| Photo taken between 1945 - 1948 |
Nita's Mother:
Margurett Bell(Maggie Bell) Sandefur
Native American Blackfoot
Birth: 02-17-1895 Death: 08-29-1939 killed by a gun shot wound. At
her home while see was in bed. The Shot came from the window and it was a Homicide. Her husband was triled for it but they
could not comvect him this was in Freer, Texas.
Nita's Daddy
Olin B. Goode
Birth: 02-20-1887 in Bridgeport, Texas
Death: October 5, 1949 in the Overton Hospital, Overton, Rusk county, Texas. Burialed in
Overton City Cemetery (unmarked grave). At the foot of Clay Hall
in Overton,Rusk Co.,Texas. Burial: Overton Cemetery The grave is unmarked
Starting at Nita's grandfather and going back as follows:
Father: Robert Fairchild Goode: Birth:
March 1853 in Arkansas Death: 1922 in Texas Burial: East Bridgeport cemetery, Bridgeport, Wise Co., Texas
Mother: Emma Elizabeth Furlow: Birth: April 1857 in Alabama Death:
1926 in Texas Burial: East Bridgeport Cemetery, Bridgeport, Wise Co., Texas Robert and Emma Goode where married ABT 1874,
Children:
1. Elizabeth Goode Birth: 09-27-1874 in Arkansas
2. Ida Bell Goode Birth: 02-21-1880 in Arkansas
3. Georgia Lucy Goode Birth: 07-17-1882 in Dan Wagner Ranch, wise Co.,Tx.
4. Richard Samuel Goode Birth: 01-16-1885 in Bridgeport, Texas
5. Oneda Mae Goode Birth: 01-16-1885 in Bridgeport, Texas
6. Olyn Benjamin Goode Birth:02-20-1887
7. Kossie Oran Goode Birth: 03-19-1892 in Bridgeport, Texas
8. Dannie Goode Birth: 12-01-1894 in Bridgeport, Texas
9. Estelle Goode Birth:09-21-1898 In Texas.
Robert Fairchild Goode
Father: Richard Goode Birth: 02-23-1810 in Henry
Co., KY
Mother: Mary Jane Stewart Birth 1829 in Lisbon, Union Co., AR.
Married : ABT 1874 Emma Elizabeth Furlow Parents unknown to me at this time.
Richard Goode Birth: 02-23-1810 in Henry Co., KY Death: ABT 1883 in Three
Creeks, Union Co., AR
Mary Jane Stewart Birth: 1829 in Lisbon, Union Co. Ar. Death:
Richard and Mary Jane Goode married 03-11-1851 in Champagnolle, Union
Co. AR.
Children:
1. Robert Fairchild Goode Birth 03- 1853 in Arkansas
2. Mary F. Goode Birth: ABT 1864 in Arkansas
3. Martha E. Goode Birth : ABT 1867 in Arkansas
4. Narcissus Goode Birth: ABT 1870 in Arkansas
Richard Goode<
Father: Charles B. Goode Sr.
Birth: ABT 1774 in Surry Co., NC Death:
Mother : Elizabeth Halbert Birth: ABT 1776 in Surry Co., NC
Children: Richard Goode Birth 02-23-1810 in Henry Co., Ky
Father:Charles B.Sr.Goode
birth Abt: 1774 in Surry Co.,NC
Death: BEF 2 May1835 in Rogersville, Lauderdale Co.,Al.
Father: Richard (Major) Goode
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