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Home Histories Index Family Group
Elna Farnsworth GoodmanElna Goodman, 72, of Bloomfield passed away Sunday Feb. 17, 2002 at home surrounded by her loving family. She was born April 16, 1929 in Bisbee, Ariz., to Leo Alma and Teleta Hilda Cluff Farnsworth. Elna and her family moved to Farmington in the '40s and graduated from Farmington High School in 1948. She also married her sweetheart Clyde Goodman in the LDS Mesa Arizona Temple in 1948. After Clyde served a mission for the LDS church in Africa they settled down in Farmington where their five children were born. Elna was a devoted and loving wife, mother and grandmother. Her children, sister Mona Ivy and some of her grandchildren were with her when she passed. She is preceded in death by her sweetheart Clyde, her daughter Patricia Irene and her parents, brothers, sister and two grandchildren. Survivors include son Joseph Howard Goodman of Bloomfield; former daughter-in-law Vicki Metheny of Farmington; daughters, Marsh Add and husband, Danny Sudduth of Bloomfield, Vonda Lynn and husband, Dean Stowell, of White Salmon, Wash.; son Ronald Alan Goodman and wife, Beverly, of Bloomfield; fifteen grandchildren and nine great grandchildren; sisters Mona Ivy and Betty Jean Carpenter; brothers-in-law and sisters-in law. Visitation will take place today at Brewer, Lee & Larkin Funeral Home from 6 to 8 p.m. Funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 804 W. Blanco Blvd., in Bloomfield with Bishop Sheldon Slade officiating. Interment will follow at Memory Gardens Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Ron Goodman, Bevin Judd, Brad Judd, Eric Carlton, Patrick Goodman and Shaun Hayes. Honorary pallbearers will be all of Elna's other grandchildren and great grandchildren. Arrangements are under the direction of Brewer, Lee & Larkin Funeral Home, 103 E. Ute St. Farmington, (505) 325-8688. |