Margaret Williams Gooch
November 22, 1919 – January 27, 2015
Resided in North Ogden
NORTH OGDEN - Margaret Williams Gooch, our loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend, passed away January 27, 2015 of complications incident to age.
She was born November 22, 1919, in her family home east of Blackfoot, Idaho, the last of nine children, to parents, Peter Joan Williams Sr. and Elosia Call Williams.
Margaret attended elementary school in Wapello, Idaho. It was a four-room school with two grades assigned to each room. She graduated from high school in Blackfoot, Idaho.
Each of the Williams children were encouraged to get an education or other training after high school. Margaret chose (or was chosen for her) to attend Ricks College for two years, earning her degree in elementary education. She taught first and second grade in Menan, ID and the first grade in Bancroft, ID.
It was in Bancroft that she met and married Rupert Gooch. She dreamed of a farmer for a husband, a home with a white picket fence and a garden. She married a farmer, painted the fence white herself and dug the ground with a shovel for her garden.
They lived in Hatch for a time until Rupert sold the ranch and moved Margaret and their three boys to Pleasant View, Utah. Margaret subsequently substitute taught in Utah at North Ogden Elementary, Ben Lomond Elementary in Pleasant View and Plain City Elementary. She loved teaching the school children. She also loved being a mother to five boys, but longed for a daughter a wish that was fulfilled with her daughters-in-law.
She loved to work outside, tending her garden and mowing her lawn until age 92. While mowing her front lawn, it irritated her when well-meaning strangers stopped to help because she was too old to be doing that. "I wish they would mind their own business", but was too kind to say it out loud.
Margaret was a member of the LDS Church and was most recently a Relief Society visiting teacher supervisor. She was loved and well served by her friends and neighbors in North Ogden. They have been especially kind to her by keeping in close contact, providing aid when she had emergencies at her home, and in the winter by cleaning the snow off her driveway.
Margaret is survived by her brother, Peter Williams Jr. of Boise, ID and five sons, John (Vee) Gooch, North Ogden, Richard (Janeen) Gooch, West Haven, Kim (Kathleen) Gooch, Kaysville, George (Tamara) Gooch, Plain City and Gary (Tana) Gooch, Hooper; 22 grandchildren; 48 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Rupert; granddaughter Amy; her parents and siblings, Leona Archibald, Jane Marlow, Vilda Stone, Vesa Babcock, Alta Beran, Lamar Williams, Janet Fowler, Ada Marie Mabey and Patricia Pedersen.
"I didnt mean to get this old; it just snuck up on me."
The family expresses their appreciation to A Step Forward and Quail Meadow for their tender loving care given to mother these last few months. Thank you.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at the North Ogden 13th Ward, 900 East 2850 North, North Ogden, Utah. Friends and family may call prior to the service on Tuesday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the church. Interment will be at the Ben Lomond Cemetery in North Ogden.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you contribute to one of the Alzheimers organizations with the hope that it makes a difference in someone's life.
Arrangements entrusted to Myers Ogden Mortuary.
Condolences may be sent to the family at:
www.myers-mortuary.com
© Standard Examiner, Saturday , January 31, 2015 - 7:00 PM
November 22, 1919 – January 27, 2015
Resided in North Ogden
NORTH OGDEN - Margaret Williams Gooch, our loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend, passed away January 27, 2015 of complications incident to age.
She was born November 22, 1919, in her family home east of Blackfoot, Idaho, the last of nine children, to parents, Peter Joan Williams Sr. and Elosia Call Williams.
Margaret attended elementary school in Wapello, Idaho. It was a four-room school with two grades assigned to each room. She graduated from high school in Blackfoot, Idaho.
Each of the Williams children were encouraged to get an education or other training after high school. Margaret chose (or was chosen for her) to attend Ricks College for two years, earning her degree in elementary education. She taught first and second grade in Menan, ID and the first grade in Bancroft, ID.
It was in Bancroft that she met and married Rupert Gooch. She dreamed of a farmer for a husband, a home with a white picket fence and a garden. She married a farmer, painted the fence white herself and dug the ground with a shovel for her garden.
They lived in Hatch for a time until Rupert sold the ranch and moved Margaret and their three boys to Pleasant View, Utah. Margaret subsequently substitute taught in Utah at North Ogden Elementary, Ben Lomond Elementary in Pleasant View and Plain City Elementary. She loved teaching the school children. She also loved being a mother to five boys, but longed for a daughter a wish that was fulfilled with her daughters-in-law.
She loved to work outside, tending her garden and mowing her lawn until age 92. While mowing her front lawn, it irritated her when well-meaning strangers stopped to help because she was too old to be doing that. "I wish they would mind their own business", but was too kind to say it out loud.
Margaret was a member of the LDS Church and was most recently a Relief Society visiting teacher supervisor. She was loved and well served by her friends and neighbors in North Ogden. They have been especially kind to her by keeping in close contact, providing aid when she had emergencies at her home, and in the winter by cleaning the snow off her driveway.
Margaret is survived by her brother, Peter Williams Jr. of Boise, ID and five sons, John (Vee) Gooch, North Ogden, Richard (Janeen) Gooch, West Haven, Kim (Kathleen) Gooch, Kaysville, George (Tamara) Gooch, Plain City and Gary (Tana) Gooch, Hooper; 22 grandchildren; 48 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Rupert; granddaughter Amy; her parents and siblings, Leona Archibald, Jane Marlow, Vilda Stone, Vesa Babcock, Alta Beran, Lamar Williams, Janet Fowler, Ada Marie Mabey and Patricia Pedersen.
"I didnt mean to get this old; it just snuck up on me."
The family expresses their appreciation to A Step Forward and Quail Meadow for their tender loving care given to mother these last few months. Thank you.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at the North Ogden 13th Ward, 900 East 2850 North, North Ogden, Utah. Friends and family may call prior to the service on Tuesday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the church. Interment will be at the Ben Lomond Cemetery in North Ogden.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you contribute to one of the Alzheimers organizations with the hope that it makes a difference in someone's life.
Arrangements entrusted to Myers Ogden Mortuary.
Condolences may be sent to the family at:
www.myers-mortuary.com
© Standard Examiner, Saturday , January 31, 2015 - 7:00 PM
Margaret Williams Gooch
November 22, 1919 – January 27, 2015
Resided in North Ogden
NORTH OGDEN - Margaret Williams Gooch, our loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend, passed away January 27, 2015 of complications incident to age.
She was born November 22, 1919, in her family home east of Blackfoot, Idaho, the last of nine children, to parents, Peter Joan Williams Sr. and Elosia Call Williams.
Margaret attended elementary school in Wapello, Idaho. It was a four-room school with two grades assigned to each room. She graduated from high school in Blackfoot, Idaho.
Each of the Williams children were encouraged to get an education or other training after high school. Margaret chose (or was chosen for her) to attend Ricks College for two years, earning her degree in elementary education. She taught first and second grade in Menan, ID and the first grade in Bancroft, ID.
It was in Bancroft that she met and married Rupert Gooch. She dreamed of a farmer for a husband, a home with a white picket fence and a garden. She married a farmer, painted the fence white herself and dug the ground with a shovel for her garden.
They lived in Hatch for a time until Rupert sold the ranch and moved Margaret and their three boys to Pleasant View, Utah. Margaret subsequently substitute taught in Utah at North Ogden Elementary, Ben Lomond Elementary in Pleasant View and Plain City Elementary. She loved teaching the school children. She also loved being a mother to five boys, but longed for a daughter a wish that was fulfilled with her daughters-in-law.
She loved to work outside, tending her garden and mowing her lawn until age 92. While mowing her front lawn, it irritated her when well-meaning strangers stopped to help because she was too old to be doing that. "I wish they would mind their own business", but was too kind to say it out loud.
Margaret was a member of the LDS Church and was most recently a Relief Society visiting teacher supervisor. She was loved and well served by her friends and neighbors in North Ogden. They have been especially kind to her by keeping in close contact, providing aid when she had emergencies at her home, and in the winter by cleaning the snow off her driveway.
Margaret is survived by her brother, Peter Williams Jr. of Boise, ID and five sons, John (Vee) Gooch, North Ogden, Richard (Janeen) Gooch, West Haven, Kim (Kathleen) Gooch, Kaysville, George (Tamara) Gooch, Plain City and Gary (Tana) Gooch, Hooper; 22 grandchildren; 48 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Rupert; granddaughter Amy; her parents and siblings, Leona Archibald, Jane Marlow, Vilda Stone, Vesa Babcock, Alta Beran, Lamar Williams, Janet Fowler, Ada Marie Mabey and Patricia Pedersen.
"I didnt mean to get this old; it just snuck up on me."
The family expresses their appreciation to A Step Forward and Quail Meadow for their tender loving care given to mother these last few months. Thank you.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at the North Ogden 13th Ward, 900 East 2850 North, North Ogden, Utah. Friends and family may call prior to the service on Tuesday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the church. Interment will be at the Ben Lomond Cemetery in North Ogden.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you contribute to one of the Alzheimers organizations with the hope that it makes a difference in someone's life.
Arrangements entrusted to Myers Ogden Mortuary.
Condolences may be sent to the family at:
www.myers-mortuary.com
© Standard Examiner, Saturday , January 31, 2015 - 7:00 PM
November 22, 1919 – January 27, 2015
Resided in North Ogden
NORTH OGDEN - Margaret Williams Gooch, our loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend, passed away January 27, 2015 of complications incident to age.
She was born November 22, 1919, in her family home east of Blackfoot, Idaho, the last of nine children, to parents, Peter Joan Williams Sr. and Elosia Call Williams.
Margaret attended elementary school in Wapello, Idaho. It was a four-room school with two grades assigned to each room. She graduated from high school in Blackfoot, Idaho.
Each of the Williams children were encouraged to get an education or other training after high school. Margaret chose (or was chosen for her) to attend Ricks College for two years, earning her degree in elementary education. She taught first and second grade in Menan, ID and the first grade in Bancroft, ID.
It was in Bancroft that she met and married Rupert Gooch. She dreamed of a farmer for a husband, a home with a white picket fence and a garden. She married a farmer, painted the fence white herself and dug the ground with a shovel for her garden.
They lived in Hatch for a time until Rupert sold the ranch and moved Margaret and their three boys to Pleasant View, Utah. Margaret subsequently substitute taught in Utah at North Ogden Elementary, Ben Lomond Elementary in Pleasant View and Plain City Elementary. She loved teaching the school children. She also loved being a mother to five boys, but longed for a daughter a wish that was fulfilled with her daughters-in-law.
She loved to work outside, tending her garden and mowing her lawn until age 92. While mowing her front lawn, it irritated her when well-meaning strangers stopped to help because she was too old to be doing that. "I wish they would mind their own business", but was too kind to say it out loud.
Margaret was a member of the LDS Church and was most recently a Relief Society visiting teacher supervisor. She was loved and well served by her friends and neighbors in North Ogden. They have been especially kind to her by keeping in close contact, providing aid when she had emergencies at her home, and in the winter by cleaning the snow off her driveway.
Margaret is survived by her brother, Peter Williams Jr. of Boise, ID and five sons, John (Vee) Gooch, North Ogden, Richard (Janeen) Gooch, West Haven, Kim (Kathleen) Gooch, Kaysville, George (Tamara) Gooch, Plain City and Gary (Tana) Gooch, Hooper; 22 grandchildren; 48 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Rupert; granddaughter Amy; her parents and siblings, Leona Archibald, Jane Marlow, Vilda Stone, Vesa Babcock, Alta Beran, Lamar Williams, Janet Fowler, Ada Marie Mabey and Patricia Pedersen.
"I didnt mean to get this old; it just snuck up on me."
The family expresses their appreciation to A Step Forward and Quail Meadow for their tender loving care given to mother these last few months. Thank you.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at the North Ogden 13th Ward, 900 East 2850 North, North Ogden, Utah. Friends and family may call prior to the service on Tuesday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the church. Interment will be at the Ben Lomond Cemetery in North Ogden.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you contribute to one of the Alzheimers organizations with the hope that it makes a difference in someone's life.
Arrangements entrusted to Myers Ogden Mortuary.
Condolences may be sent to the family at:
www.myers-mortuary.com
© Standard Examiner, Saturday , January 31, 2015 - 7:00 PM
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