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• Reference Number: 11811
• _FUN: 24 Dec 2014, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA

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Obituary from Sheridan Media and Sheridan Press
Sheridan, Sheridan County, Sheridan, Wyoming
Russell Goodman
Russell Allen Goodman, 60, passed away on Wednesday, December 17, 2014. He was born on November 20, 1954 at Sheridan Memorial Hospital to Robert and Norma Louise (Neff) Goodman. He graduated from Sheridan High School in 1973. He married Lanna Reinschmidt on March 12, 1983 and they later divorced. He worked at various jobs including construction, Wyoming Sawmills, and was still currently employed with Cloud Peak Energy since 1979.
Russell was an avid outdoorsman. He loved to ride motorcycles, dirtbiking, four wheeling and especially loved riding in the mountains.
Russell was preceded in death by his father, stepson (Jason Obert), grandparents and several aunts and uncles. He is survived by his mother, from Sheridan, Dr. Matt Goodman, Boston, MA., daughter Kristina Colleen Goodman and granddaughter Aubrey Jade Goodman, Sheridan. Siblings include Jim Goodman, Aurora, CO., Ruth Grevesen (Steve) Greeley, CO., and Cindy Pilch (Tom) Sheridan, WY. His special friend was Terry Jurosek of Gillette, WY.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions be made to the donor's choice.
A Celebration of Life will be at 10:00 am on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 at Kane Funeral Home with Pastor Scott Lee officiating. A reception will follow in the Kane Reception Hall.
Online condolences may be written at www.kanefuneral.com.
Kane Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.

Notes from Tannya Goodman:
Russell Allen Goodman, son of Robert and Norma (Neff) Goodman; grandson of Adam and Anna (Kukes) Goodman; great-grandson of Conrad and Marie Susanna (Schmidt) Kukes passed away on December 17, 2014, in Sheridan, Sheridan County, Wyoming. He was born on November 20, 1954, in Sheridan, Sheridan County, Wyoming.
His great-grandparents, grandparents, father, and step-son: Jason Obert preceded him in death. He is survived by his mother of Sheridan, Wyoming; older brother, James Dennis Goodman of Aurora, Colorado. Two younger sisters: Ruth Ann (Goodman) and Steve Greveson of Greeley, Colorado; and Cindy Lou (Goodman) and Tom Pilch of Sheridan, Wyoming. Son, Dr. Matt Allen Goodman of Boston, MA; daughter, Kristina Colleen Goodman of Sheridan, Wyoming. His granddaughter, Aubrey Jade Goodman [Kristina's daughter]. Three nieces: Richelle Ann (Greveson) and Patrick O'Neil of McKinney, Texas; Hilary Ann Pilch of Casper, Wyoming; and Emily Pilch of Gillette, Wyoming.
A little more about Russell. He married Lanna Reinschmidt on March 12, 1983, in Sheridan, Sheridan County, Wyoming, and they later divorced, in Sheridan. (She is Jason Obert's mom.). Russell was an avid outdoorsman. He loved to ride motorcycles, dirtbiking, four wheeling and especially loved riding in the mountains. He worked at various jobs including construction, Wyoming Sawmills, and was still currently employed with Cloud Peak Energy (Spring Creek Coal) since 1979. His special friend was Terry Jurosek. She is from Gillette, Campbell County, Wyoming. He loved his kids and granddaughter so much. Russell had just recently visited Matt in Boston with his brother, Jim and their mom. The day of his passing he had attended his granddaughter, Aubrey's kindergarten Christmas program. Aubrey will miss her "Poppy".
Russell had many nicknames from family and friends: "Itch", "Shorty", "Russ", "Rusty". He was very well liked. To sum up this information, two of his friends (Tim and Amy Githens) wrote: "Rusty was such a wonderful friend. He touched so many lives and was adored by those who knew him. He will be greatly missed...."
A Celebration of Life was at 10:00 am on Wednesday, December 24, 2014, at Kane Funeral Home in Sheridan, Wyoming, with Pastor Scott Lee officiating. A reception followed in the Kane Reception Hall.
Itch from me to you: I know your dad, Jason, and my dad were there to meet you. I can just see all of you standing around sharing stories and roaring with laughter. I was remembering all the good times we had growing up of hide and seek, going to the A&W, fishing, snowmobiling, going to Yellowstone, the laughter and yes shared heartaches. Will miss getting to send you photos of my two grandsons on your cell. Just know: "Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I'll miss you, Until we meet again." God be with him. All my love, hugs -Tannya
Note: Richelle with an i is spelled correctly.

Russell married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Race: White
• Name: Robert {Bob} Goodman
• Reference Number: 11804
• Residence: Sheridan, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA
• Birth: Abt 1929, Montana, USA
• Residence: 1930, Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, USA; Age: 1; Age: 1 9/12; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1935, Yellowstone, Montana, USA
• Residence: 1940, Big Horn, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA; Age: 11; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1940, Big Horn, Sheridan, Wyoming, USA; Age: 11; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Death: 28 Feb 2010

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http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/robert-goodman/article_452eb434-2b1a-11df-ba2d-001cc4c03286.html

March 09, 2010 12:00 am
SHERIDAN, Wyo. - Robert Goodman, 81, of Sheridan, passed away Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010, in Mesa, Ariz.

Robert was born Oct. 11, 1928, in Billings, to Adam and Anna (Kukes) Goodman. When Robert was 9, the family moved to Big Horn, Wyo., where he attended school. In 1949, Adam and Anna purchased the Pony Track Ranch on Lower Prairie Dog Road and the family moved there. Robert lived and worked on the ranch until 1958.

On Sept. 23, 1950, Robert married Norma Louise Neff. They would have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in September. Robert and Norma had four children.

In 1959, Robert and Norma purchased the Skelly Gas Station on North Main Street. They operated the gas station until 1972, when they sold it to Robert’s brother Louis. Robert and Norma then purchased the Mobile Home Estates Park and operated it until 1994. He also owned and operated Bob’s Mobile Wash. Robert was also a fuel hauler for Maverick Country Stores for 10 years. Robert retired in 2002, and he and Norma began traveling. They had spent the last eight winters in Arizona.

Robert enjoyed snowmobiling in the Big Horns - he was the first president of the Big Horn Mountain Snomads - and water skiing at Lake DeSmet. He enjoyed time with his family. He was a member of the Sheridan Elk’s Lodge.

He is survived by his wife and four children, Jim, Denver; Russell, Sheridan; Ruth Grevesen (Steve), Greeley, Colo.; and Cindy Pilch (Tom), Sheridan. Also five grandchildren, Richelle Grevesen-O’Neil (Patrick), Plano, Texas; Matt Goodman, Forest Grove, Ore.; Kristina Goodman, Sheridan; Emily Pilch, Billings; and Hilary Pilch, Laramie, Wyo. And a great-granddaughter, Aubrey Goodman, Sheridan. He is also survived by one sister, Sadie Robertson, Sheridan; and several nieces and nephews.

He is preceded in death by his parents; five brothers, George, Louis, Howard, Virgil and Kenneth; one sister, Virginia Bury; and one grandson, Jason Obert.

Cremation has taken place. A celebration of life is planned at a later date. Memorials may be made to the donor’s choice.

Notes from Tanny Goodman:
(The following is a news article interview with my Aunt Sadie. I have made notations in [ ]s of clarification of some of the story from family members at the end of the article.)


Page 22

SHERIDAN PRESS ARTICLE
Saturday, February 1, 2014
By Lois Bell
Sheridan Senior Center

PIONEER DAUGHTERS SHARE POETRY, ART

UNDER PHOTO: Jean Harm, left, illustrated the cover to a book of poetry written by 95-year-old Sadie Robertson. Robertson had approached Harm to design the cover of her latest book of her poetry she had printed in October 2013. The illustration and poems draw on the women’s connection to the outdoors. Both Harm and Robertson are descendents of pioneers who settled in Sheridan County in the later part of the 19th century.

SHERIDAN - She was in her 50s when the poetic muse touched her. Now 95 years old, Sadie Robertson continues to see the world through the eyes of a poet. She published her fourth book of poems in October 2013.

“I write from what I’ve seen and from what I think I’ve learned from what I’ve seen,” Robertson said.

Her inspiration draws often from her experiencing the outdoors. Her Volga German ancestors from Russia connected to the earth when they began farming in Sheridan county in the later part of the 19th century.

“My grandfather, John Goodman, farmed in the area south of Sheridan College,” Robertson said.

Grandfather John may have been Robertson’s inspiration for her poem she titled “The Poet.”
“His gnarled old hands long to hold a
pen to move over a smooth, white paper;
but farming is all he has ever known;”

Robertson’s father also was connected to the outdoors. He worked on ranches and farms in the countryside surround- ing Billings. After the Great Depression and the Billings flood of 1937, her father moved back to Sheridan County where he had grown up. He worked on several farms and eventually bought the Pony Track Ranch on Lower Prairie Dog Creek. The place became known as the Goodman ranch and he operated it under his own brand.

Robertson, then Sadie Goodman, had already married a Montana cowboy and stayed in the Billings area. She divorced and moved to Sheridan. Later she met and married Angus Robertson, an immi- grant from Canada who led exploration crews looking for oil in the area. His career kept the Robertsons on the move and again connected to the outdoors. It was while they were living in Casper when Sadie began writing her first poems.

“My first collection was called “A Far- Away Country of Apples.” It’s in the Library of Congress. Tom Mercer illustrated the cover and encouraged me to publish it for sale,” Robertson said.

She did but did not like the experience of selling her poetry. “I don’t feel right selling my poetry, they are the deepest part of me. I only want to share them with people who know me or who I would like to know me,” she said.

Robertson wrote and printed her latest collection of poems in October 2013 in her book titled “Under a Western Sky” to share with those people.
She approached one of those special people, Jean Harm, to illustrate the cover.

Harm and Robertson share a common bond as descendents of pioneer families to Sheridan County. Harm, born Jean Wilkes, is the daughter of Sheridan pioneers. Her lineage is rooted with great- great grandparents who settled in the 1880s in the Parkman Five Mile Flats area.

Harm, who was kitchen manager of the dining room at Heritage Towers where Robertson lunched, would illustrate the daily menus. Robertson enjoyed Harm’s drawings.

“It was always a delightful little menu board. I always liked to see what (Jean) had done,” Robertson said.

“She (Robertson) told me she was doing one last book and wanted something on the cover that depicted Wyoming skies,” Harm said. “I told her I would do it for the fun of it.”

Harm, like Robertson, drew her inspiration from the outdoors. She went to her
family cabin in the Bighorns to draw in her sketch book. She drew three illustrations in color pencil before settling on the one she felt was the right one for Sadie’s very last book.

Robertson printed 35 copies of her new book locally. She did not sell “Under A Western Sky” reserving it to give as a gift to friends. Robertson retains a passion for the printed word.

“There’s nothing like holding a book in your hand,” Robertson said.
“Of the gifts offered here
if there is one that touches
a special moment in your lives,
then this effort has been successful.”
- Preface to “A Far-Away Country of Apples"

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NOTE: Lucille is Pauline's daughter - Pauline is the youngest daughter of John Goodman. Norma was married to Robert - Sadie's brother. My Dad was a brother to Sadie. George is another brother to Sadie. Hank was a son of John Goodman and half-brother to Sadie's dad, Adam.

[Aunt Sadie was only 94 years old. Born in 1919.]

[I spoke with Aunt Norma, Lucille, and Mom - as well as - my memories from Dad. Uncle Hank {Sadie's uncle - John's son} farmed beets where the Sheridan College Ag Center is now. Per Lucille: she remembers visiting Uncle Hank when they lived on the road they now call the Woodland Park Road. Uncle George {Sadie's brother} rented the little house that sat across the road from where the college is now - (just recently the barn last building there was torn down - see photo) with Aunt Guyla and daughter, Pat. I remember my Dad telling about that lone tree out front of the house. How a bunch of cattle gathered around that tree during a lightening storm. Lightening struck the tree and killed about 30 head. Lucille said that Grampa John Goodman and his wife, Anna, lived with her mom and dad (Shorty and Pauline Schuman) but they lived south of the "Y" out by where the big brown barn is - the Powder Horn is now. That was the first year they were married. Shorty (Phil Schuman) worked for the railroad and Aunt Pauline {Sadie's dad's sister} at the laundry in Sheridan.]

[Aunt Norma said in reference to the article Grampa Adam Goodman did not work for others here. He leased the Irwin place then Minnie Martin's place. Both out by Big Horn.]

[Aunt Norma said Uncle Bob remembered his Grampa as always on the screened in porch laying down with a fly swatter in his hand and that he didn't have much to do with the kids. My Dad remembers an old man at Aunt Pauline's but he didn't know he was his Grampa. (My dad was about three at the time.)]

[Aunt Pauline was in the hospital having Lucille in 1934 when Grampa John Goodman died. My dad was 3 years old, Uncle Bob 5 years old, Sadie was 15 years old.]

[Sadie was married to Bill Wegner the Montana Cowboy in the story.]

{Side Note}
[I don't know if my Dad, Kenneth, remembers his maternal grandparents (Kukes). He was very young (just turned 4) when Gramma Goodman took him on the train to Washington when her dad died. At that time, the trains were only for service men and their families. In order to get back for her father's funeral, one of the service men offered to claim she was his mother to be able to ride the train to get back to state of Washington. Gramma Goodman told me that Dad cried all the time because he was homesick, so she cut her trip short.]


Death:
Age: 81

Robert married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]