Goff - Frank Basil
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review, May 21, 1960
WALLACE – Frank Basil Goff, 60-year-old prominent resident of Jackson Township, died Wednesday in St. Elizabeth Hospital at Danville, Ill. He suffered a heart attack last Saturday. Born Jan. 9, 1900, at the Goff family homestead in Vermillion County near Gessie, he was a son of Jeremiah and Martha Prather Goff. His father was widely known in this area as a minister in the Primitive Baptist Church. Mr. Goff was married Dec. 8, 1919 to Carmen Switzer. He was serving his second term as Jackson Township trustee at the time of his death and had served several years as president and director of the Wallace Telephone Co. He also served as Fountain County Co-Op director and was chairman of the Jackson Township Farm Bureau. He was active in politics, in the fountain County Republican party for a number of years. Mr. Goff attended the Wolf Creek Baptist Church here. Survivors include his wife; a son, Charles Goff of New Market; two daughters, Mrs. Alice Merryman of near Kingman and Mrs. Pauline Brown of Tampa, Fla.; a brother, Roy Goff of Pana. Ill.; his mother-in-law, Mrs. Doris Switzer, who resides in the Goff home; an aunt, Mrs. Daniel Hicks of Perrysville; an uncle, Stillman Goff of Rockville; two nephews, a niece and 13 grandchildren. Funeral rites will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Friday at Phanuel Lutheran Church near here with Rev. Richard Kraus officiating. Burial will be in the Phanuel Lutheran Cemetery. Friends may call at the family residence three miles east of here from 2 p.m. Thursday until the hour of the funeral. – jlr