Obituary of Rosa Anne Goodrich

Mrs. Rosa “Mum” Anne Goodrich, age 93 a resident of Lake Alfred passed away Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at home surrounded by family. Mrs. Goodrich was born April 19, 1928 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Archibald and Bertha Elizabeth (Pardoe) McEachern. She was a Lake Alfred resident since 1983 coming from Sacramento, California. Mum was a retired Tele-Type Operator in the Communications Industry where she worked for Western Union and Air Canada Fruit Exchange. She lived in England during World War II, working to evacuate children safely into bomb shelters and working in the Daycare field. Mum loved doing genecology and has been doing it for over 50 years. She enjoyed reading and spending time with her family. She was preceded in death by her parents and husband – Russell Wesley Goodrich. Mum is survived by her loving family, 2 stepdaughters – Cary (Roland) Herwig of Oklahoma and Anita (Ronald) Dodson of South Carolina; 4 grandchildren – Cary (Rufus) Mock of Lakeland, Jeri (Mark) Pujul of Utah, Connie (Brad) Dillon and Ronald (Kelley) Dodson both of South Carolina; 14 great grandchildren and 10 great great grandchildren. There are no services scheduled for Mrs. Goodrich at this time. A Scottish Eulogy – Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tome. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Lit it be spoken without an effort, without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident ? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.