One of five brothers in Tempe, AZ
"Will Goodwin was my mother's father: slender, gentle, entrepreneurial and inventive. Amongst other things, he owned the first trolley car there, the outdoor movie theatre (for which the Goodwin kids pumped the player piano for the silent screen), and a mine in Cave Creek... wrote a Pima Indian dictionary, and regularly made soothing salve from the desert's aloe vera. From Missouri HE had come; from Texas SHE (my grandmother) had come. ("Alverta May" was her name, but they called her "Dolly", or "Aunt May" or "Mama May" - the lady with the lovely singing voice.) Together, they penned "An Arizona Home", later to become "Home on the Range". And TOGETHER, they forged a gracious and inviting home = a "desert tapestry," rich in colors..."
Excerpt from memorium for Alverta May Goodwin McCluskey written by Marcia McCluskey Tuttle
"Will Goodwin was my mother's father: slender, gentle, entrepreneurial and inventive. Amongst other things, he owned the first trolley car there, the outdoor movie theatre (for which the Goodwin kids pumped the player piano for the silent screen), and a mine in Cave Creek... wrote a Pima Indian dictionary, and regularly made soothing salve from the desert's aloe vera. From Missouri HE had come; from Texas SHE (my grandmother) had come. ("Alverta May" was her name, but they called her "Dolly", or "Aunt May" or "Mama May" - the lady with the lovely singing voice.) Together, they penned "An Arizona Home", later to become "Home on the Range". And TOGETHER, they forged a gracious and inviting home = a "desert tapestry," rich in colors..."
Excerpt from memorium for Alverta May Goodwin McCluskey written by Marcia McCluskey Tuttle
One of five brothers in Tempe, AZ
"Will Goodwin was my mother's father: slender, gentle, entrepreneurial and inventive. Amongst other things, he owned the first trolley car there, the outdoor movie theatre (for which the Goodwin kids pumped the player piano for the silent screen), and a mine in Cave Creek... wrote a Pima Indian dictionary, and regularly made soothing salve from the desert's aloe vera. From Missouri HE had come; from Texas SHE (my grandmother) had come. ("Alverta May" was her name, but they called her "Dolly", or "Aunt May" or "Mama May" - the lady with the lovely singing voice.) Together, they penned "An Arizona Home", later to become "Home on the Range". And TOGETHER, they forged a gracious and inviting home = a "desert tapestry," rich in colors..."
Excerpt from memorium for Alverta May Goodwin McCluskey written by Marcia McCluskey Tuttle
"Will Goodwin was my mother's father: slender, gentle, entrepreneurial and inventive. Amongst other things, he owned the first trolley car there, the outdoor movie theatre (for which the Goodwin kids pumped the player piano for the silent screen), and a mine in Cave Creek... wrote a Pima Indian dictionary, and regularly made soothing salve from the desert's aloe vera. From Missouri HE had come; from Texas SHE (my grandmother) had come. ("Alverta May" was her name, but they called her "Dolly", or "Aunt May" or "Mama May" - the lady with the lovely singing voice.) Together, they penned "An Arizona Home", later to become "Home on the Range". And TOGETHER, they forged a gracious and inviting home = a "desert tapestry," rich in colors..."
Excerpt from memorium for Alverta May Goodwin McCluskey written by Marcia McCluskey Tuttle
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