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Wilda Goss
Miss Wilda Goss, 83, of Crossville Nursing Health & Rehab, formerly of Boaz, died Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, at Crossville Health & Rehab.
Services will be today, Saturday, Nov. 7, at 11 a.m. at McRae Funeral Home Chapel with Brothers Keith Dodd and Bruce Sanford officiating. Burial will follow at Douglas Cemetery.
Miss Goss was born in Alabama on March 4, 1926, to Virgel Lee and Bertha Gregory Goss. She was a graduate of Woodlawn High School, in Birmingham, and received her B.S. degree from Howard College, now known as Samford University, in Birmingham. She later received her M.A. degree from the University of Alabama.
Upon graduation from college, she began work as an intern in Food Services at East End Memorial Hospital, in Birmingham. She retired 44 years later as Head of Dietary Services from what was then Medical Center East, in Roebuck.
Miss Goss was a world traveler. She visited many countries, including Great Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Russia, Japan and she was a member of one of the last groups to visit Cuba prior to the Castro regime.
She enjoyed documenting her visits with photos of the attractions and the flowers she saw.
Miss Goss took pleasure in many things; two of her most special were her painting and bird watching.
As her friends know, Wilda became an accomplished artist of landscapes and flowers. Her paintings are prized possessions.
She also enjoyed her backyard bird feeders and knowing the various kinds of birds that came to eat.
Her greatest joy came from serving others. She was a longtime member of Ruhama Baptist Church, in Birmingham, and later, Boaz First Baptist Church. She became a CASA volunteer driver, providing transportation to Gadsden, Huntsville and Birmingham. She was honored with the CASA Volunteer of the Year award.
Miss Goss is survived by her nephew and niece-in-law, Lee and Martha Stamps, of Georgia; great-nephew, James Weaver; special friends, Bruce Sanford, Maxine Bittinger, Robert Leeth, Joan Noel, Tee Jay Russell, Phalon Hale, Paul and Tammy Hale, Rick and Sarah Williams, Zadie Nell Amberson, Marion Owen, Mary Copeland, Naomi Rhinehart, Ambar Centeno, Ruth Howard, Nurse Linda Doeberl, of Crossville Health & Rehab, and Lennie Cisco, of Shepherd’s Cove – Hospice of Marshall County.
Pallbearers will be James “Jimbo” Leatherwood, Paul Hale, Glenn Russell, Rick Williams, Gerald Head and James Malone.
Published November 7, 2009
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