Edith M. Goode

Edith Marie Hightower Goode, 80, Florence, Ala., died Friday, March 15, 2002, at Coffee Health Group after an extended illness.Visitation will be 12:30-3 p.m. Sunday, March 17, at Greenview. The funeral will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Greenview Funeral Home chapel, with burial in Tri-Cities Memorial Gardens.Officiating at the funeral will be the Revs. Charles Williams and John Brock.She was a native of Bethel, Tenn. (Giles Co.) and was a member of the North Wood United Methodist Church and worshipped from home with HBC via TV.She is survived by her son, Kenneth Goode and wife, Susan, Florence, Ala.; daughter, Pamela Fowler and husband, Jim, Loretto, Tenn.; sister, Joy Davis and husband, Jim, Mount Air, N.C.; sister-in-law, Reba Warren, Huntsville, Ala.; grandchildren, Russell Goode and Valerie Goode, Florence, Ala.; a number of nieces and nephews, and She was preceded in death by her husband, Bruce Douglas Goode; parents, James J. and Marv V. Hightower; and an infant daughter, Mary Frances Goode.Pallbearers will include Russell Goode, Ken Romine, Todd Romine, Darryl Quillen, Phillip Fowler, Rod Graves, Tim Warren and Paul Davis.Mrs. Goode was retired from Graves Printing Co. in 1987, and worked in the Lauderdale County Tax Collectors Officefor many years and also at Redstone Arsenal.She was a member of North Wood United Methodist Church.Mrs. Goode attended school at Prospect School in Tennessee, Bowling Green Business College and Athens State College.The family would like to express appreciation to Drs. Landers, Morris, Holden, Stinson and Bailey and their staff and nurses, special nurse friends, Tara Ray and Emily McDonald, Coffee Health Group First West nursing staff and respiratory, Florence Boulevard Milner-Rushing and staff of Highland Baptist Church.In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to American Cancer Society, American Lung Association or the American Heart Association.Greenview Funeral Home of Florence is directing.