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MRS. ELIZABETH GOFORTH Forest City, Aug. 11, 1940- Funeral services were conducted at the
First Methodist church here this afternoon for MRS. ELIZABETH STRADLEY GOFORTH, 36, w/o J.T. GOFORTH, Forest City business man.

Mrs. Goforth died Friday morning in the General hospital at Spartanburg, where she had recently undergone an operation. The Rev. W. HAROLD GROCE officiated at the funeral with burial in
Pleasant Grove cemetery.

She was a graduate of Rutherford hospital training school for about 5 years before her marriage served as a public health nurse for a life insurance company. She was married nine years ago .

Active pallbearers; FRED WILKIE, E.B. KIMBRELL, HOWARD NEIGHBORS, CLYDE HARDIN, R.B. McBRAYER and ROY CALLAHAN.

Besides her husband, survived by a daughter, ELIZABETH 6, parents, MR. and MRS. J.R. STRADLEY of Asheville and the following brothers and sisters; MRS. W.L. KILPATRICH,  MRS. H.B. WILSON,  J.H. and WOODROW STRADLEY of Asheville, MRS. JAMES S. SHERWOOD of Maiden, J.R. STRADLEY JR. of Hickory and MISS CAROLYN STRADLEY of  Huntington, W. Va.

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