Lemon Carey Goodwin (1845-1923)

GOODWIN, HASKELL, HARDY, HARDIE, ELY

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:11

From Nevada Evening Journal May 11, 1923 (page 3)

Former Nevada Hotel Man Called By Death

L. C. Goodwin, 78, for a number of years engaged in the hotel business in Nevada, and for last thirteen years conducting the Goodwin Hotel on Third avenue in Marshalltown, died at his home in that city Wednesday morning, diabetes being the cause of his death. The funeral services were held at the home Thursday afternoon at 2:00, after which interment was in Riverside cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin conducted a hotel for seven years in the old hotel building corner Main and Lincoln avenue and were well and most favorably known in the city. He was a good hotel man popular with the traveling public and with the people of the city and is most kindly remembered by a wide circle of friends in Nevada, many of whom have called upon them during their long residence in Marshalltown.

Mr. Goodwin, a native of Ohio, had come to Iowa in 1870 and Marshalltown had been his home the most the time since, with the exception of the time that he lived in Nevada.

Born in Ohio March 27, 1845, he was first married to Catherine Haskell who died in New Orleans in 1882 and a year later he was married to Miss Nellie Hardy of Marshalltown. There was one son and one daughter by his first wife. The son died a few years ago and the daughter, Mrs. Charles Ely lives in Minneapolis. He also leaves his second wife and their son, the son being Dr. Carrol H. Goodwin, now a practicing dentist of Fonda in Nevada the son was familiarly known as "Nat" Goodwin.

Mr. Goodwin had been ill for a couple of months or more and during that tie he had been affectionately cared for by his wife and the son.