Leon Goodson

Published 6:00 am Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Services for Leon Goodson, of Fayette, will be held at 2 p.m. onThursday, Jan. 3, 2008, at Franklin Funeral Home Chapel inMeadville with burial in Sarepta Church Cemetery in FranklinCounty. Franklin Funeral Home in Meadville is in charge ofarrangements.

Visitation is Wednesday from 5 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home,and on Thursday from 8 a.m. until the time of the service.

Mr. Goodson, 90, died Dec. 31, 2007, at Franklin County MemorialHospital in Meadville. He was born in Jefferson County on Dec. 12,1917, to Walter Leon Goodson and Loni Lee Goodson.

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He was a farmer. He was a member of Sarepta Baptist Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents; a brother; foursisters; and his first wife, Myrtle Ruth Goodson.

Survivors are his wife, Rachel Goodson, of Fayette; his sons,Jimmy Lynn Goodson, of Fayette; his daughters, Barbara Freeman, ofRoxie, Nina Granger, of Brookhaven, and Ann Difranco, of Hammond,La.; his stepsons, Armon Whittington and Paul Whittington, both ofHazlehurst; his stepdaughters, Mary Helen Pierce, of Summit, andWillie B. Myer, of Jackson; his 15 grandchildren and 20great-grandchildren.