Verna M. Goodman passed away at the Good Samaritan Center at Osnabrock, ND on Wednesday, April 15, 2009.  She was 86 years old. 

She was born March 16, 1923 at Calvin, ND, the fifth child of ten children born to Bertha (Nelson) and Nels Restad.  Verna attended the Grey Consolidated School.  Her dad taught her to play accordion at the age of three and an organ at age 5.  She played “Under the Double Eagle” and “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.”  She was self-taught and played the piano by ear.  During the war she taught piano in a band called the “Melodiers”;  Vernon O’Neil on sax; Syl Metzger on banjo; Nestor Metzger on drums.  This band played around the Wales-Sarles area.  On November 4, 1943 she married Glen Goodman at the Milton Lutheran Church. 

Glen and Verna Curled in various bonspiels around the county, they received “best host and hostess” trophy for several years.  They square-danced and Verna belonged to sewing club and Eastern Star.  Verna and Glen farmed until 1976 when they moved to Modesto, California.  They moved back to Langdon and bought their Condo in the fall of 1982.  Verna was a great cook and decorator.  She took a correspondence course in “Interior Decorating.”  She sewed and did macramé and needlepoint.  She loved cats and had many in her lifetime.  She loved to play horse shoes, shuffleboard and badminton. 

She is survived by a son Bernie (Carol) Goodman of Milton, ND; a daughter Marcia (Boyd) Eagleson of Rugby, ND; 10 grandchildren; Chad Eagleson, Darren Goodman, Brian Goodman, Travis Goodman, Greg Goodman, Brett Goodman, Sean Eagleson, Jace Eagleson, Andrea Bonnes, Ashley Eagleson, 18 great-grandchildren, a brother Clarence (Shirley) of Crescent City, Calif.; sister-in-laws Helen Young of Grants Pass, Ore.; Jackie Restad of Visalia, Calif.  

She was preceded in death by her husband Glenn in 2005; son Dennis in 1975, infant daughter Carroll Fae in 1945, grandson Ross Eagleson in 1971, two sisters; Doris Blake Kertz, Lilly Rustan Johnson; 6 brothers; Melvin, Torey, Norman, Loren, Clifford and Myron. 

     A Prayer Service will be held at 11:00 am

     Saturday April 18, 2009 at

     Brooks Funeral Home, Langdon, ND

Condolences:

Sorry to hear of your loss. May God be with you during these days.

Pastor Donna Monteith

To the Goodman's remember
Goodbyes are not forever, Goodbyes are not the end, and they simply mean I'll miss you until we meet again.
So many seem to leave us as we all get older and to me when I look up to the heavens perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy." As I am sure it is true with Verna.