Mrs. Goodison was born in State College, Pennsylvania, daughter of the late Norman Sparks and Ruth Barbur Sparks. She graduated from Ithaca High School in 1945, attended Cornell University, and graduated from Highland Hospital School of Nursing in Rochester, New York in 1949 as an RN. Mrs. Goodison worked at Claxton-Hepburn Hospital in Ogdensburg from 1962 – 1987, mainly as an ER Nurse. She enjoyed the outdoors, gardening, swimming, and tennis. In her later years she also enjoyed knitting and reading. She loved to travel, taking trips to Hawaii, Cancun, Mexico, and special trips to California and Florida. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband William Swanson in 1983 and her second husband Herbert Goodison in 2014.
Survivors include her two daughters, Gail Swanson Moore and husband James of Oak Island, North Carolina and Karen Swanson Beiter and husband Harold of Hudson, Florida; grandchildren, Mark and Devon Moore of Oak Island, North Carolina, Andrew and Amy Beiter of Amhurst, New York, Jennifer Heller and husband Tim of Clearwater, Florida, and David and Amanda Beiter of Port Richey, Florida; 7 great-grandchildren; step-daughter, Susan Goodison and step granddaughter Erin Collins of California.
Private family services will be held at a later date with burial in Evergreen Cemetery in Canton, New York.
Online condolences may be made at www.peacocknewnamwhite.com.
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