Betty Goyen
Elgin
1909-2002
Frances Elizabeth "Betty" Goyen, 92, of Elgin died March 25 at a local care center. A graveside service will begin at 11 this morning at the Elgin Cemetery. Loveland Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Goyen was born Oct. 10, 1909, to Jeremiah B. and Grace Amanda Hockin Blake in Santa Rosa, Calif. She moved to Clarkston, Wash., in 1925, and finished nurses training in 1929 in Lewiston, Idaho. She married James Vernon Wickersham in 1932 in Reno. Later she married Walter Howard Goyen on May 26, 1944, in Clarkston, Wash. The couple moved to Elgin in 1946.
She was a nurse in Colfax, Wash., Lewiston and in private homes.
She was a member of the VFW auxiliary, serving as president for many years, volunteered in the VA hospital in Walla Walla, and since 1989 was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Elgin. She enjoyed gardening, sewing, crocheting and helping people.
Survivors include daughter, Marjorie Nelson of Central Point , seven grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren, 11 great-great-grandchildren, a sister, Margie Lee Madison of Tacoma, Wash., and other relatives. Her husband, a son, Raymond H. Goyen, a brother, William Blake, and sisters-in-law, Emma Cass, Daphne Vandervort, Hazel Blake, Florence Schooler and Grace Simpson all died earlier.
Memorials may be made to the Family History Center, P.O. Box 31 in La Grande.
Elgin
1909-2002
Frances Elizabeth "Betty" Goyen, 92, of Elgin died March 25 at a local care center. A graveside service will begin at 11 this morning at the Elgin Cemetery. Loveland Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Goyen was born Oct. 10, 1909, to Jeremiah B. and Grace Amanda Hockin Blake in Santa Rosa, Calif. She moved to Clarkston, Wash., in 1925, and finished nurses training in 1929 in Lewiston, Idaho. She married James Vernon Wickersham in 1932 in Reno. Later she married Walter Howard Goyen on May 26, 1944, in Clarkston, Wash. The couple moved to Elgin in 1946.
She was a nurse in Colfax, Wash., Lewiston and in private homes.
She was a member of the VFW auxiliary, serving as president for many years, volunteered in the VA hospital in Walla Walla, and since 1989 was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Elgin. She enjoyed gardening, sewing, crocheting and helping people.
Survivors include daughter, Marjorie Nelson of Central Point , seven grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren, 11 great-great-grandchildren, a sister, Margie Lee Madison of Tacoma, Wash., and other relatives. Her husband, a son, Raymond H. Goyen, a brother, William Blake, and sisters-in-law, Emma Cass, Daphne Vandervort, Hazel Blake, Florence Schooler and Grace Simpson all died earlier.
Memorials may be made to the Family History Center, P.O. Box 31 in La Grande.
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