Donald “Don” Carl Goss, 93, a resident of Parsons, passed from this life Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at Davis Medical Center in Elkins.
Don was born Sunday, January 8, 1922 in Erwin, a son of the late Francis Freel Goss and Delphia Merl Hebb Goss. On October 5, 1942, in Oakland, MD, he was married the former Hilda Elizabeth Gauer who preceded him in death in 2007. They had celebrated sixty-four years of marriage.
Left to cherish Don’s memory are three children, Danny Charles Goss and wife Linda, Jeanne Bonner and husband Garry E., all of Parsons, Donna Carr and late husband Ernest “Sonny” of Hambleton, seven grandchildren, Jeana Holbert and Beth McCleery of Chesapeake, VA, Michael Bonner, Amy Liller Wagner, Julie Bright, Danny Allen Goss and Holly Ferguson, all of Parsons and eighteen great grandchildren.
Preceding Don in death besides his parents and wife were five siblings, Gertrude Beck, Margaret Goss Harlow, Lucille Stone Beall, John and Leo Goss.
Don attended the schools of Tucker County and was part of the first class to graduate from the new Parsons High School in 1940. Don proudly served in the US Navy (Armed Guard) during World War II. He had been employed as a business manager for Laborers’ Local 984. Don enjoyed fishing, working puzzles and listening to Polka music. He was a devoted Christian and attended the First Baptist Church of Parsons.
A visitation was held at the Summerfield Funeral Home in Parsons Thursday from 6-8 p.m. A funeral service was conducted at the funeral home Friday, August 7, 2015 at 1 p.m. Rev. Allen D. Crosten officiated and interment followed in Bethel Cemetery in Holly Meadows.
The Summerfield Funeral Home was been entrusted with the arrangements for Donald “Don” Carl Goss. Send online condolences to the family at www.summerfieldfuneralhome.com.