Ronald L. Goodknight

GOODKNIGHT, SESKER, ESTEL, MANNETTER

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 3/25/2006 at 11:54:42

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
August 17, 1988

RONALD L. GOODKNIGHT, Eldora

Services for Ronald Leon Goodknight, 75, Eldora, who died Aug. 11, 1988, at Eldora, were held at Collins Funeral Home on Monday, Aug. 15, with the Rev. Bob Epperson officiating. Burial was at the Winterset Cemetery with Masonic graveside rites by the Evening Star Lodge No. 43 of Winterset.

Born in Cambridge on Feb. 21, 1913, he was the son of Willis and Lena Sesker Goodknight. He was a retired restaurant owner and former owner of the Northside Cafe in Winterset.

On July 30, 1945, he was married to Marjorie Estel of Tupello, Miss.

Mr. Goodknight had lived the past one and half years in Eldora after living in Winterset for 35 years. He was a member of the Salem United Church, in Hubbard, the Loyal Order of Moose in Iowa Falls and he Masonic Evening Star Lodge No. 43 in Winterset.

Survivors include his son, Loren of Eldora; a brother, Marvin of Iowa Falls; three grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.