Clara Goodman

Mrs. Clara O. Eldridge Goodman, age 73, of Crix Ridge Road, Morehead, Kentucky, passed away Saturday, November 14, 2009, at the St. Mary's Hospital in Huntington, West Virginia after an illness of several weeks.

Mrs. Goodman was the widow of Homer Goodman who passed away October 20, 2009

She was born December 27, 1935 in Rowan County, Kentucky and was the daughter of the late Preston and Lillie Mae Pence Eldridge. She was also preceded in death by four sisters, Anna Fraley, Fredia Crumb, Verna Riddle and Lula Kiser and one brother, Charles Eldridge.

She is survived by her daughter Debbie Goodman Moore and her husband William of Ashland, Kentucky; one brother, Roscoe Eldridge of Morehead, Kentucky; and three sisters, Mary Brown of Greenup, Kentucky, Carma Eldridge of Morehead, Kentucky, and Shirley Blevins of Glasgow, Kentucky, as well as several nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.

Mrs. Goodman was retired from the Rowan County Public Library where she served as the bookmobile librarian for many years. She was also a homemaker who enjoyed sewing, quilting and gardening and she was of the Old Regular Baptist Faith.

An Old Regular Baptist Church funeral service will be conducted at 1:00 P.M. Tuesday, November 17, 2009, in the chapel of the Lane-Stucky-Gray Funeral Home with Elder Gary Adkins and Elder Curt Seagraves officiating.

Burial will follow in the Crix Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Michael Brown, David Brown, Tommy Riddle, Paul Goodman, Willie Goodman and Brian Stephens.

Visitation is after 5 p.m. Monday, November 16, 2009, at Lane-Stucky-Gray Funeral Home with a special Old Regular Baptist Church service to be held 6:30 P.M. Monday with Elder Paul Boggs, Elder Gary Blevins officiating.