Lawrence Philip Goodman

Our beloved grandfather, father, and husband passed away and through into the Heavens’ of God at the solid age of 81, on January 2nd 3:30 a.m. of this new year. His last breath was at the Memorial Hermann Hospital City Center. Where the finest of nursing staffs’ gave Philip and our family focused love and memorable support. Our family will be vigilant of praise for the care givers God blessed us with during grave times.

Philip and his three brothers all played the game of football as Navasota ‘Rattlers’ in Grimes County Texas. Along with his two sisters, the Goodman children were raised sternly by Mother Wyatt Brown and Father Charles A. Goodman.

Philip was a dedicated Boy Scout Leader, and what may have lacked at home he put towards the Boy Scouts. Simply put, Philip wanted to give younger lads useful skills to be utilized through out one’s life.

In 1950’s Beaumont Texas a choice had to be made: rough work and steady pay laboring in the oilfield, or picking up his guitar and jumping into the new touring Cadillac of George Jones. Wow! That’s a story there…

Philip turned down the offer from the man who would become country music bedrock, and instead chose the oilfield. Which is OK with us because he was a winner either way.

So, “No Show Jones” moved on towards Nashville, and Phillip made a 50 year career living the world over on oil rigs drilling for the crude that moves us today. Proudly mentioned is his 19 years of dedicated service with Reading & Bates Drilling now Transocean. While on an extended drilling assignment in Singapore, Phillip met the love of his life, Ms. Elaine Baron, who soon became Mrs. Elaine Goodman.

Preceded in death by his immediate family: joined at his hip for 46 years his ever lovely wife Elaine; daughter Belinda, Ken & Greg Goodman his sons; and the life spark that moved him through cancer, and the pain that goes with it, his fourteen year old granddaughter, Isabella Elaine Musatto, a granddaughter second to none.