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- Husband (Edward Randolph Goodwin) gravestone shows wife Virginia Ferguson's birth date as 2/29/1922
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7/12/09 notes from daughter Sarah Lee (Sally) (Goodwin) Klein:
Mama was born in Waynesville, NC and they lived there until she was 7 or 8. Then ( somehow as a result of the Depression and to get to better farmland to support their large family ) the family moved to Waynesboro VA. Her parents split up when her mother got sick with TB. She was sent to a sanitarium in NC. Her 2 kids moved in with her parents who had 6 surviving kids, the youngest of whom was 5 yrs older than my mother's brother. When they gave up on my grandmother, she was brought to Waynesboro. They lived in an old farm outside of town. They enclosed the back porch into a sunroom as an isolation room for my sick grandmother. She died after a few months and my mother and her brother were raised as brother and sister to their aunts and uncles ( Mama's nickname is still Sis ) The oldest Aunt was married so she stayed in NC and the older Aunts and Uncles still consider Waynesville " home " . All of Mama's Aunts and Uncles are dead but my mom's oldest cousin ( daughter of the oldest Aunt who stayed behind ) still lives in Waynesville
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Obituary posted by Funeral Home
Virginia F. Goodwin, 88, of Little Rock, died, June 25, 2010 at the University of Arkansas Medical Science Hospital after a long illness. She was born on May 29, 1922 in Haywood County, North Carolina to the late Vinson Ferguson and Sarah Noland Ferguson. She is preceded in death by her husband, Edward R. Goodwin.Virginia was a graduate of Madison College (now JMU) and she taught school in Waynesboro and Charlottesville Virginia. She worked as a Librarian at the University of Virginia, the University of Florida and Ferrum College. She was a member of the Robert Moore class at Asbury United Methodist Church.She is survived by her daughter, Sally Klein, M.D. and her husband Bud Klein, M.D. of Little Rock, Arkansas; three grandchildren, Capt. Edward W. Klein and his wife Jessica, Beth Klein and Michael Klein and his wife Sonia; four great-grandchildren, Jared and Jackson Allen and Jasmine and Adam Klein and loving friends in Columbia, South Carolina.The family would like to thank Kathy Henley, the staff at Chenal Heights Nursing and Rehab, the staff of 7 E at UAMS and Drs. Carradine, Simmons and Kutagula of UAMS Geriatrics for making her last years and days the best they could be.A private family service will be held at Evergreen Cemetery in Waynesboro, Virginia. Memorials may be made to Asbury United Methodist Church, 1700 Napa Valley Dr., Little Rock, AR 72212.----------------------------------
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