GOFF, Stillman - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Funeral services for Stillman Goff, prominent 82-year-old Parke County farmer and brothers of Mrs. Evea Hicks of Perrysville, who died Monday night, Nov. 7, at his home on Rockville Rt. 4, were held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Butler Funeral Home in Rockville. Dr. S. F. Nerry and the Rev. Eston Brooks officiated and burial was in Memory Garden Cemetery, Rockville. Mr. Goff was a lifetime farmer, active in the raising of Hereford beef cattle and Chester White hogs. He was a member of the Parke County REMC Board of directors and the Producers Marketing Association of Terre Haute. He also was a past president of the Parke County Fair Board, a former director of the Parke County Farm Bureau, and served on the Rockville Library Board. He was a member of the New Bethel Community Church. He was born Oct. 16, 1884, in Vermillion County, the son of Philander and Anna Fox Goff. He married Edith Jones, Dec. 18, 1907 and she survives. Surviving, in addition to the wife, are: three daughters, Mrs. Horace E. Abbott of Indianapolis, Mrs. Paul Machledt of Montezuma and Mrs. Raymond W. Smith of Barberton, Ohio; two sons, Stillman Reece Goff of Park Ridge, Ill., and Glenn J. Goff of Kensington, Md.; one sister, Mrs. Hicks of Perrysville; 17 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. - jlr