Submitted by: Margie Roop Pearce

South Bend Tribune, St. Joseph County, Indiana, Thursday, Feb 5, 1981

GOFF

  Several services are planned Saturday for James W. Goff, 62, of 12594 State Road 23, Granger, who died Wednesday night in his home of an apparent heart attack.   A prayer service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Thallemer-Goethals Funeral Home, followed by graveside service at South Lawn Cemetery, South Bend, by the South Bend Elks Lodge.   A memorial mass is planned for 11:30 a.m. Saturday in St. Pius X Catholic church, Granger.   Friends may call until 9 p.m. today in the funeral home, where the rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. today.

South Bend Tribune, St. Joseph County, Indiana, Friday, February 6, 1981

  JAMES W. GOFF, EX-HARRIS TWP. FIRE CHIEF, DIES

  James W. Goff, 62, owner of Goff Insurance Agency and the first chief of the Harris Twp. Volunteer Fire Department, died about 8 p.m. Wednesday in his residence at 12594 Ind. 23, Granger, after a sudden illness.

  He was born in Frankfort, Ind. on Aug 7, 1918, and moved to Mishawaka in 1931.   In addition to establishing the insurance agency 10 years ago, he operated the city's Westen Union telegraph office.   He was one of the founders and the first chief of the Harris Fire Department when it was organized in 1954, serving for six years in the post.   In 1938, in Mishawaka, he married Germaine T. Richard, who survives.

  Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Emery (Geraldine) Papp of South Bend, and Lt. Comdr. Vicki K. Goff, stationed with the Navy in San Diego; two sons, James R. Goff of Seminola, Okla., and Douglas R. Goff of Columbus, Ohio, nine grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Martha Popejoy of Delphi, Ind., and a brother, Robert G. Goff of Long Island City, N. Y.   Goff was past exalted ruler of the South Bend Elks Lodge.   Friends may call from 4 to 9 p.m. Friday in the Thallemer-Goethals Funeral Home.