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Belle Goodwin (51008306)

Suggested edit: Belle F. Barnett Goodwin, pioneer resident of Tillman County, died at Hallmark Villa Saturday, April 13, 1968, at the age of 84. She was born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi on October 22, 1883, the daughter of Jacob Hammond Barnett and Elizabeth M. Barnett and came to the Davidson community in Tillman County, Oklahoma at an early age.

She married Jacie Lee Goodwin at Davidson on December 11, 1904. In the years to come the couple would have ten children, Crystal, Leilar, Myrtle, Jack, Marvin, Helena, Virgil, Estelle, Hazel Mae, and Woodrow.

At an early age Mrs. Goodwin trusted the Lord as her Saviour - her religion was as much a part of her life as were home and her family; even in death contributions of money and Bibles were given as memorial gifts in her honor.

When her daughter Crystal came home from school one day, she found her mother in the kitchen with a tea towel wrapped around her face. When asked what she was doing, Belle explained that she was practicing for going blind. She was 33 years old. By the age of 45, Belle was declared legally blind. She, however, did not let her blindness keep her from doing her housework and rearing her children. She carried on as if she had sight.

During their working years, the Goodwins, after homesteading in New Mexico, came back to Oklahoma in 1911 and settled on a farm near Manitou where they lived and farmed for the next 35 years. By 1946, they had turned all of the farming operation over to their youngest son Woodrow, so they retired and moved to Frederick, Oklahoma. They lived there about nine years before Jacie's death in 1955.

After her husband's death, Belle lived alone until she could no longer take care of herself at which time she lived with her oldest daughter Crystal, and then at Hallmark Villa until her death in the spring of 1968. Her funeral service was held at Gish Memorial Chapel with Rev. Laurence Cox, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church of which she was a member, officiating. She was buried next to her husband at Frederick Memorial Cemetery.

Survivors included four daughters, Mrs. Crystal Ochsner of Chattanooga, Oklahoma, Mrs. Estelle Roberts of Pierre, South Dakota, Mrs. Hazel Mae Atkins of El Sobrante, California, and Miss Helena Goodwin of Woodward; three sons, Marvin Goodwin of Manitou, Rev. Virgil L. Goodwin of Cashion, Arizona, and Woodrow Goodwin of Quincy, Washington; 18 grandchildren and 13 great-great grandchildren, and brother Cleveland Barnett of Fay, Oklahoma.
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