Bertie Goodman

Bertie C. Goodman FRANKLIN - Bertie Coggsdale Goodman, 85, widow of Thomas Phillip Goodman, died April 26, 2010 at Consulate Healthcare Center in Windsor. She was born in Southampton County, a daughter of the late Ruby Merritt Coggsdale and James Raymond Coggsdale, and was predeceased by a sister, Ruth Vickhouse. Mrs. Goodman was retired from the G C Murphy Department Store. Left to cherish her memory are two sons, Gerald Wayne Dunning and his five children of Florida and Mitchell K. Goodman Sr. of Franklin and his two children, Mitchell K. Goodman Jr. and wife Lindsay and their son, Cole Goodman, Heather Darden and husband Phil and their two sons, Ayden and Emerson Darden; one sister, Joyce Wright of Fredericksburg; and one brother, Bob Coggsdale of Suffolk. The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 29, in the chapel of Wright Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Riverside Cemetery, Courtland. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at the funeral home, and other times at the home of Heather and Phil Darden, 19483 Drake Road, Franklin. www.wrightfuneralhome.org.