Rev. James Francis Goodman
Feb 22, 1880-Nov. 30, 1945
Niles Daily Star, Saturday, December 1, 1945, page 2, col. 6, microfilm Niles District Library
Rev. Goodman, 65, Dies Friday at Kendallville, Ind.
The Rev. James Francis Goodman, 65, died Friday at the McCray memorial hospital, Kendallville, Ind., after being ill with pneumonia for about three weeks. He served as Baptist minister in Niles from 1934-1937.
Goodman was born in Canada Feb. 22, 1880 and came to the U.S. at the age of 14. He was educated at Kalamazoo College and at the Baptist Theological seminary in Louisville, Ky.
He married Myrtle B. Brooks of Oscoda, Mich. Oct. 2 1906. She survives. Other survivors are a brother, Joseph, of Kalamazoo; and two children, Monica Willard, of Niles and Paul J. Goodman, of Inkster. Goodman finished his ministerial work with an eight year pastorate at the Wolcottville and Rome city Baptist churches in Indiana.
Funeral services will be held at . .[illegible] . .Baptist church. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.