Obituary of Marjorie Louise Goodwin

Marjorie Louise Moore Goodwin, 88, Eden Prairie, Minnesota passed way at home on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. Memorial services will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Summit Place in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and at the East Hill Church of Christ in York, Nebraska, at 10 a.m. Saturday. Marjorie Louise (Moore) Goodwin was born Oct. 8, 1926, to Robert Art Moore and Effie Glasgow Moore at Kim, Colorado. She attended White rural school until the fifth grade, and then she attended Kim schools, graduating from Kim High School in 1944. She attended college at Western State in Alamosa, and Trinidad Junior College in Colorado. She taught elementary schools in Kim and Walsh, Colorado. In 1948, she married C. F. Goodwin of Kim. They farmed and ranched south of Kim for four and half years. In 1952, a son was born to them, Bruce Wayne Goodwin. In 1953, they moved to Gillette, where they farmed and ranched for seven years. She taught rural consolidated schools at Recluse and Gap. She attended Sheridan Community College in the summers. In 1959, they purchased a farm and ranch twenty miles south of Prairie City, South Dakota. They lived there for 39 years. Over the years they added several small places to the original ranch. She taught rural schools in South Dakota for thirteen years (Colorado, three years; Wyoming, four years), retiring in 1978. She received her degree in Elementary Education from Black Hills State University in 1970. In 1986, they sold their cattle and then rented out the grassland to other ranchers. This allowed them more freedom to travel. They went to every state in the U.S., plus Mexico, twice and Canada, three times. They liked antiques and loved to go to auctions and refinish furniture and lights. This developed into a fun hobby for them and provided things to do on cold, winter days. In 1998, they sold the ranch and moved to York, Nebraska, to be near their son, Bruce, and his family. She was an active member of the Church of Christ and taught children’s Sunday School for many years. She is survived in death by her son, Bruce; grandson; granddaughter; four great-grandchildren; brother, Jerry Moore of Clayton, New Mexico; four nephews; six nieces; and many cousins. Preceding her in death were her husband, C. F.; two brothers, Van Shaw and Neil Moore; two sisters, Odell Kennedy, Ola Criffield.