Fern Corinne Goldsmith

GOLDSMITH, MYERS, PERRIN

Posted By: Marlene Skalberg (email)
Date: 7/6/2012 at 18:26:13

Fern Corinne Goldsmith, 98, was born Sept. 21, 1897, to William Harvey and Jessie (Slsk) Myers in Adams County. She died Oct. 8. 1995, at Colonial Manor Nursing Home in Corning.
She attended school at Brooks and at the Corning Academy.
She married James M. Goldsmith Feb. 10, 1918, at the same time her sister Flossie Myers married James twin brother Edward Goldsmith at the home of their parents in Brooks. The two couples were privileged to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary together in 1978.
They began farming west of Coming and later moved to a farm one mile west of Corning where they lived until 1937. They lived on the Tuck farm south of Coming for a time and lived in the Hyland vicinity from 1939 until 1942 where they lived until moving
to Corning in 1973.
Mrs. Goldsmith was a member of the Brooks United Methodist Church and UMW. She later transferred to the Coming United
Methodist Church.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; a greatgrandson; and nine brothers and sisters.
She is survived by her daughter Velda (husband Hollis) Perrin, Corning; four grandchildren: 13 great-grandchildren; 12 greatgreat- grandchildren; two slsters-ln-law, Stella Goldsmith. Seattle. Wash., and Mary Goldsmith. Coming; and a brother-in-law Francis (wife Lucille) Goldsmith, Lenox.
Services were held Oct. 11 at the Coming United Methodist Church with Rev. Richard Layman officiating. Burial was in Prairie Rose Cemetery. Brooks.
Casket bearers were James Amdor, Henry Heaton. Ken Pangburn. Wayne Wilson, Donald Perrin, Richard Goldsmith.
Memorials have been established to the Brooks United Methodist Women.
Adams County Free Press, October 19, 1995, page 2