Services for Dr. Don W. Goss, 62, of Temple, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Harper-Talasek Funeral Home in Temple with the Rev. Howard Martin officiating.
Burial will be in Pendleton Cemetery.
Dr. Goss died Friday, Nov. 30, in a Temple hospital.
He was born in La Sara, Hidalgo County, to Percey E. and Clara J. Johnson Goss. He received a bachelor's degree in agronomy in 1962 and a master's degree in agronomy-soil geomorphology in 1964, both from Texas Tech University. He also received a Ph.D. in agronomy-soil mineralology and classification in 1967 from North Carolina State University.
Dr. Goss retired from the U.S. Department of Agriculture after 25 years of service and had been a research scientist with Blackland Research Center in Temple since 1991. He was a member of the Troy United Methodist Church, the American Society of Agronomy, the International Society of Soil Science, the Soil Conservation Society of America, the Soil Science Society of America, the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology and the African Soil Science Society.
Temple Daily Telegram
December 3, 2001
Services for Dr. Don W. Goss, 62, of Temple, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Harper-Talasek Funeral Home in Temple with the Rev. Howard Martin officiating.
Burial will be in Pendleton Cemetery.
Dr. Goss died Friday, Nov. 30, in a Temple hospital.
He was born in La Sara, Hidalgo County, to Percey E. and Clara J. Johnson Goss. He received a bachelor's degree in agronomy in 1962 and a master's degree in agronomy-soil geomorphology in 1964, both from Texas Tech University. He also received a Ph.D. in agronomy-soil mineralology and classification in 1967 from North Carolina State University.
Dr. Goss retired from the U.S. Department of Agriculture after 25 years of service and had been a research scientist with Blackland Research Center in Temple since 1991. He was a member of the Troy United Methodist Church, the American Society of Agronomy, the International Society of Soil Science, the Soil Conservation Society of America, the Soil Science Society of America, the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology and the African Soil Science Society.
Temple Daily Telegram
December 3, 2001
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