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Emery L. Goodenberger (2012)

ANDERSON, BANKUS, BUTLER, CORBIN, GOODENBERGER, HENN, SANDBO, SIEBELS, SMITH, WAGONER

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 9/28/2012 at 07:24:20

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

EMERY GOODENBERGER, Winterset

Emery L. Goodenberger, 83, of Winterset and formerly of Panora died Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, at West Bridge Care Center in Winterset.

Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. today (Wednesday, Sept. 26) at Ochiltree Funeral Service in Winterset, where Pastor John Shaull will officiate. Memorials may be directed to a fund established in Emery’s name.

Emery Lee Goodenberger was born Oct. 11, 1928, in Clarion, Iowa, to Austin Harold and Eva Eloise (Butler) Goodenberger. He attended grade school in Hampton until 9th grade, when his mother died and he and his father moved to Montana, where he graduated from high school. He graduated from Drake Law School in 1953. His marriage to Marian Louise Henn took place at the First Methodist Church in Des Moines on Sept. 3, 1950, and the wedding was officiated by Marian’s father, Rev. W. C. Henn and grandfather, Rev. Roy Talley. After graduating from law school, Emery joined law practice with Jno. N. Hartley in Winterset and in 1954 he started his own practice in Winterset. He served three terms as Madison County Attorney. In December of 1964, he went to work in Des Moines for the Estate and Gift Tax Division of the United States Treasury Department until he retired in 1988. Following retirement, Emery and Marian made their home at Lake Panorama near Panora until June of 2006 then they moved back to Winterset. While living at Lake Panorama, Emery worked with the Hammans Brothers Country Realty. Emery was a member of the Panora Brethren Church and served on the Guthrie County REC Board. He had been a Lion, and was a member of the Three Coin Club in Winterset.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Marian; two grandchildren, Michael Siebels Jr. and Ashton Marie Goodenberger; and his three siblings, Earl Goodenberger, Betty Corbin and Lois Sandbo.

He is survived by his four daughters, Marcia Bankus of Quincy, Ill.; Rhonda Wagoner of Winterset, Sondra Smith of Jefferson, Pamela Anderson of Columbia, Mo.; two sons, Perry Goodenberger of Palestine, Texas, Marty Goodenberger of Panora; 15 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. He is also survived by a sister-in-law, Millie Goodenberger of Iowa City; and two brothers-in-law, Roger Corbin of Traer and Bob Sandbo of Bellevue, WA.

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