Effie (Phillips) Goode
Services celebrating the life of Effie Phillips Goode will be held Monday, April 4, 2011. Visitation will be held at 2 p.m., with a 3 p.m. funeral service at Centuries Memorial Funeral Chapel, 8801 Mansfield Road, Shreveport, Louisiana. Officiating will be the Reverend Ken Irby of Broadmoor United Methodist Church. Interment will follow at Centuries Memorial Park.
Effie Phillips Goode passed from her earthly home into the arms of her Heavenly Father Wednesday, March 30, 2011. She was a loving daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, friend.
She is survived by her two daughters and sons-in-law, Carolyn and Tom Rorie and Kim and Richard Adams. Also surviving are five grandchildren, Stephani Adams, Elizabeth Rorie Patterson and husband, Marshall, John Rorie and wife, Paula, Andrew Adams and wife, Morgan, and Meredith Adams; and three great-grandchildren Gabriel and Gillian Patterson and Autumn Harris. It was a blessing that her last three years were spent in Plano, so she was able to receive many happy visits from her great-grandchildren.
Effie was born December 4, 1923, to Wise Lucuious Phillips and Vivian McWhinney Phillips Norvell in Gloster, Louisiana, and it was there that she spent her early childhood years. She graduated from C.E. Byrd High School in Shreveport, and then attended Louisiana Polytechnic Institute in Ruston, Louisiana. During World War II, she moved to Washington, D.C., to work at the Pentagon as a secretary.
On Valentine's Day 1946 she married John Letcher Goode, in her mother's home in Shreveport. That union lasted 51 years, and he preceded her in death in 1997.
Effie was a lifelong member of Broadmoor United Methodist Church, where her mother and stepfather, Earl Norvell, were founding members. She was a member of the Friendship Class.
During her lifetime she worked at Boy Scouts of America and Broadmoor Junior High School . She grew award-winning African violets and created beautiful cross-stitch. She was also an excellent seamstress and a mean Rummikub player. Effie made the best chicken and dumplings in the South, had a witty sense of humor, and considered clothes-shopping one of her favorite pastimes.
For the past three years, Effie lived at The Conservatory for Senior Living in Plano, Texas, where she made fast friends. Those friendships brought much joy to her last few years.
The family would like to thank Grace Home Heath for their loving care of Effie for the past several months, and VistaCare Hospice for their care in her last days. Memorial contributions can be made to Broadmoor United Methodist Church or a charity of one's choice.
Source: The Daily Sentinel, Nacogdoches, Texas, April 3, 2011
