The State
Columbia, S. C.
August 30, 1956
Gooding Rites to be Held Here Friday
Funeral services for Lt. (JG) William James Gooding Jr., 25, U.S. Navy, who was killed Tuesday in an airplane accident near Olathe, Kansas, will be at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon at Washington Street Methodist Church, conducted by Rev. Wallace Friday.
Interment will be in Greenlawn Cemetery, with military rights accorded at the graveside.
He was the son of W. J. Gooding, bridge engineer of the South Carolina Highway Department, and Mrs. Isabel Monteith Gooding, 1500 Shirley St.
Lt. Gooding was graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1952 and received his wings as a naval aviator at Pensacola, Florida in 1953. He served a tour of duty in anti-submarine warfare at Quonset Point, Rhode Island.
In June 1953 Lt. Gooding married Miss Shirley Hogan of Ocala, Florida.
Surviving, in addition to his widow and parents, are an infant son, William James Gooding III; two sisters, Mrs. Ernest Lawhorne and Miss Mary Jo Gooding, both of Columbia; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Jo Monteith of Columbia.
At the time of his death Lt. Gooding was aide to Rear Adm. R. S. Clarke, chief of Naval Air Advanced Training with headquarters at Corpus Christi, Texas. He was granted a leave from his duty to take a course with the Jet Transitional Training Union at Olathe, Kansas, and would have completed his training in a day or two.
According to a spokesman for the family, it appeared Lt. Gooding was flying in a group of four F-9-F-6 Cougar Navy fighters and was returning to the airfield from flying maneuvers when the plane developed a mechanical failure at a low altitude. He ejected himself from the plane but apparently had insufficient altitude for parachute landing.
Columbia, S. C.
August 30, 1956
Gooding Rites to be Held Here Friday
Funeral services for Lt. (JG) William James Gooding Jr., 25, U.S. Navy, who was killed Tuesday in an airplane accident near Olathe, Kansas, will be at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon at Washington Street Methodist Church, conducted by Rev. Wallace Friday.
Interment will be in Greenlawn Cemetery, with military rights accorded at the graveside.
He was the son of W. J. Gooding, bridge engineer of the South Carolina Highway Department, and Mrs. Isabel Monteith Gooding, 1500 Shirley St.
Lt. Gooding was graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1952 and received his wings as a naval aviator at Pensacola, Florida in 1953. He served a tour of duty in anti-submarine warfare at Quonset Point, Rhode Island.
In June 1953 Lt. Gooding married Miss Shirley Hogan of Ocala, Florida.
Surviving, in addition to his widow and parents, are an infant son, William James Gooding III; two sisters, Mrs. Ernest Lawhorne and Miss Mary Jo Gooding, both of Columbia; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Jo Monteith of Columbia.
At the time of his death Lt. Gooding was aide to Rear Adm. R. S. Clarke, chief of Naval Air Advanced Training with headquarters at Corpus Christi, Texas. He was granted a leave from his duty to take a course with the Jet Transitional Training Union at Olathe, Kansas, and would have completed his training in a day or two.
According to a spokesman for the family, it appeared Lt. Gooding was flying in a group of four F-9-F-6 Cougar Navy fighters and was returning to the airfield from flying maneuvers when the plane developed a mechanical failure at a low altitude. He ejected himself from the plane but apparently had insufficient altitude for parachute landing.
The State
Columbia, S. C.
August 30, 1956
Gooding Rites to be Held Here Friday
Funeral services for Lt. (JG) William James Gooding Jr., 25, U.S. Navy, who was killed Tuesday in an airplane accident near Olathe, Kansas, will be at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon at Washington Street Methodist Church, conducted by Rev. Wallace Friday.
Interment will be in Greenlawn Cemetery, with military rights accorded at the graveside.
He was the son of W. J. Gooding, bridge engineer of the South Carolina Highway Department, and Mrs. Isabel Monteith Gooding, 1500 Shirley St.
Lt. Gooding was graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1952 and received his wings as a naval aviator at Pensacola, Florida in 1953. He served a tour of duty in anti-submarine warfare at Quonset Point, Rhode Island.
In June 1953 Lt. Gooding married Miss Shirley Hogan of Ocala, Florida.
Surviving, in addition to his widow and parents, are an infant son, William James Gooding III; two sisters, Mrs. Ernest Lawhorne and Miss Mary Jo Gooding, both of Columbia; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Jo Monteith of Columbia.
At the time of his death Lt. Gooding was aide to Rear Adm. R. S. Clarke, chief of Naval Air Advanced Training with headquarters at Corpus Christi, Texas. He was granted a leave from his duty to take a course with the Jet Transitional Training Union at Olathe, Kansas, and would have completed his training in a day or two.
According to a spokesman for the family, it appeared Lt. Gooding was flying in a group of four F-9-F-6 Cougar Navy fighters and was returning to the airfield from flying maneuvers when the plane developed a mechanical failure at a low altitude. He ejected himself from the plane but apparently had insufficient altitude for parachute landing.
Columbia, S. C.
August 30, 1956
Gooding Rites to be Held Here Friday
Funeral services for Lt. (JG) William James Gooding Jr., 25, U.S. Navy, who was killed Tuesday in an airplane accident near Olathe, Kansas, will be at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon at Washington Street Methodist Church, conducted by Rev. Wallace Friday.
Interment will be in Greenlawn Cemetery, with military rights accorded at the graveside.
He was the son of W. J. Gooding, bridge engineer of the South Carolina Highway Department, and Mrs. Isabel Monteith Gooding, 1500 Shirley St.
Lt. Gooding was graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1952 and received his wings as a naval aviator at Pensacola, Florida in 1953. He served a tour of duty in anti-submarine warfare at Quonset Point, Rhode Island.
In June 1953 Lt. Gooding married Miss Shirley Hogan of Ocala, Florida.
Surviving, in addition to his widow and parents, are an infant son, William James Gooding III; two sisters, Mrs. Ernest Lawhorne and Miss Mary Jo Gooding, both of Columbia; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Jo Monteith of Columbia.
At the time of his death Lt. Gooding was aide to Rear Adm. R. S. Clarke, chief of Naval Air Advanced Training with headquarters at Corpus Christi, Texas. He was granted a leave from his duty to take a course with the Jet Transitional Training Union at Olathe, Kansas, and would have completed his training in a day or two.
According to a spokesman for the family, it appeared Lt. Gooding was flying in a group of four F-9-F-6 Cougar Navy fighters and was returning to the airfield from flying maneuvers when the plane developed a mechanical failure at a low altitude. He ejected himself from the plane but apparently had insufficient altitude for parachute landing.
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