Stanley Chase Goodsill

Stanley Chase Goodsill was born in Galesburg, Illinois, on August 24, 1918, to Harriet Margherita Chase and Marshall Max Goodsill. Stanley grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota attending U High, then on to the University of Minnesota, majoring in business, and then on to the Harvard Business School, graduating in June 1942 with an MBA. Despite his limited eyesight Stan volunteered to join the United StatesArmy in December, 1942 at Ft. Snelling, Minnesota. World War II was in full bloom and Stan served three years in a medical unit in Naples, Italy. He was honorably discharged with a Middle Eastern Theatre Service medal on November 30, 1945, at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. Upon returning home, Stan resumed his studies and received his CPA. With this in hand he worked in Chicago and Washington D.C. until 1949 when he moved to Honolulu, Hawaii. He joined the accounting firm of Young, Lamberton and Pearson and became a partner in 1956. Stan met his wife, Marilyn Allenbaugh (known to all as Penny), at a lovely gathering of her Punahou School friends, who were returning home since leaving the Islands after the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. It was love at first sight and marriage soon followed. Two of Stan and Penny's three children, Louise and Susan, were born in Honolulu. In 1958, the international accounting firm of Deloitte and Touche persuaded Stan to join them as partner. This meant a move to New York City and the sad departure from the Islands; Marilyn's lifetime home, her family, Stan's brother and family and many friends. This was an exceedingly difficult decision to make. The Stanley Goodsills did move and settled in Woodbridge, Connecticut. Stan was the Partner in Charge of Deloitte's New Haven office until retirement in 1972. Of course there was much more to life than work. The Goodsills welcomed their third child, Jeff, in 1961. Stan had a busy life doing his favorite activities, speed ice-skating, still life photography, traveling and horseback riding, stamp collecting, and being with his family. As a youth he traveled to Germany with his high school classmates, and to Alaska and dude ranches in Montana. In later life, he looked forward to family trips to dude ranches, a trip into the Gallatin Mountain Range wilderness with his young son, wife Marilyn and guides, ski trips with family to New Hampshire and Vermont, river boat trips with his wife in France, and exploring Egypt and Malaysia as an International Executive Service Corps volunteer. Stan was active in the Boy Scouts of America for many years, a dedicated member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, a Kiwanian and a CPA Association member. He also enjoyed golf club memberships in Hawaii, Connecticut and South Carolina where he excelled in the game and made many lifelong friends. Stan leaves behind his devoted wife, Marilyn; daughter, Louise and husband, Martin Auerbach of Brooklyn Heights, New York and their three sons, Bretton Max, Alexander Chase and Quinn Zane and his wife, Michelle Vredberg; daughter, Susan and husband, Ray Peyton of Zanesville Ohio and their children, Scott David and his wife, Jill Ewart, Gretchen Ann and husband, Kevin Swank; daughter, Katelyn Sue; and son, Jeffrey Allen and wife, Martha Bixler and their children, Lucas Stanley and Sophia Kay residing in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Stan was also blessed with seven wonderful great-grandchildren, Marshall, Anna, Henry, Genevieve, Noah, Caroline and Wynter. Note: Stan joined the army at Ft. Snelling, MN on December 18, 1942, and was honorably discharged November 30, 1945, at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. A Memorial Service will be held at 3p.m. Saturday, March 25, 2017, at Westminster Canterbury of the Blue Ridge Chapel in Charlottesville. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.hillandwood.com.