Florence A. Timblin-Goodwin 1934-2001

GOODWIN HANDSHAW PRANKE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 7/6/2011 at 16:48:58

Sioux City Journal
10 May 2001

Florence A. Timblin-Goodwin of Sioux City died Saturday, May 5, 2001, at her residence following a brief illness.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Boniface Catholic Church, with the Rev. Paul McKane officiating. Burial of the cremains will be in Banner Township Cemetery, Lawton, Iowa. Visitation will be 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, with the family present 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and a parish vigil service at 7:30 p.m., at Larkin Northside Funeral Home.

Mrs. Timblin-Goodwin was born July 21, 1934, in Sioux City, the daughter of Edward and Gertrude (Handshaw) Pranke. She attended Heelan High School.

She married Terrance Timblin in 1950 in Sioux City. She later married Thomas Goodwin on April 15, 1976, in Elk Point, S.D. He died March 29, 1998, in Sioux City.

She was employed as a line worker with Wincharger and Johnson Biscuit Co. She was then employed in the housekeeping department at Marian Health Center. She began an upholstery business and a jewelry making business. She sold her jewelry at craft shows, pow wows and Saturday in the Park.

She was a member of St. Boniface Catholic Church. She was active in Boy Scouts, Girls Scouts and Cub Scouts as a Den Mother. She was a volunteer at the St. Michael's School lunch program and a 35 year member of Al-Anon.

Survivors include three sons and their wives, Mike and Deborh, Kenny and Maureen, and Jeff and Rita Timblin, all of Sioux City; four daughters, Rhonda and her husband, Mark Meylor and Paula Allen, all of Sioux City, Cindy Goodwin of Phoenix, Ariz., and Virginia Kappler of Indianapolis, Ind.; her adopted children, Deb Price, Cindy Burns and Neil Kappler, all of Sioux City; three brothers and their wives, Edward and Eleanore Pranke of Mescal, Ariz., Edwin and Beadie Pranke of Calipatria, Calif., and LeRoy and Ellen Pranke of Sioux City; five sisters, Gert and her husband, Bob Paul, Mary Jo and her husband, Dick Derochie, Ethel May and her husband, Wyman Anderson, and Dorothy Marston, all of Sioux City, and Gwen and her husband, Bob Ross, of South Sioux City; 18 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two sons, Terry Timblin and Timothy Timblin in infancy.