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- Parelee ?Perry? Gooch
Andrews--- Parelee ?Perry? Gooch, 96, of Odessa, passed away Tuesday, August23,2005, at Avalon Place in Odessa. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, August 27, at AndrewsOldCemetery in Andrews with the Rev. Alvin Petty, pastor of WesleyUnitedMethodist Church in Andrews, officiating. Mrs. Gooch was born November 24, 1908, in Enid, Oklahoma. ShemarriedArthur T. Gooch March 29, 1930, in Wagner, Oklahoma. They livedinAndrews from 1948 to 1988 until they moved to Eureka, Kansas. Shemovedto Odessa in January of this year to be with her grandchildren.Mr. Goochpreceded her in death in 1994. She was a homemaker and a member of Wesley Methodist Church inAndrews.She was a member of the Andrews Lions Club Ladies Auxiliary.She loved towrite letters to friends and family, cook and watch hersoap operas. Shewas a very strong Christian and was very active in thechurch. She was aSunday school teacher, and she enjoyed working withthe youth groups. Shehad a great sense of humor and loved to arguepolitics with her friendsand family. She was preceded in death by two sons, Donald Gooch, in 1964, andArthurGooch, in 1961. Mrs. Gooch is survived by five grandchildren, Carolyn Davis andhusband,Garvis, of San Antonio, Bobby Gooch and wife, Suzann, andTerry Gooch andwife, Debbie, all of Odessa, Donald Gooch and wife,Susan, of Forney, andVickie Wolfenbarger and husband, Buddy, ofComstock, Texas; a niece, JeanMarie Booth of Eureka, Kansas; 11great-grandchildren; and 12great-great-grandchildren.
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