Elsie Franz Goossen

Elsie Franz Goossen, who died on March 22, 2013, was born the fourth child of Alvin L. and Bertha Franz Goossen, on July 20, 1945. She was born in Colby, Kansas in the middle of wheat harvest. Elsie grew up on a farm in the Mingo area and attended the first eight grades of school in Oakley, Kansas. The parents moved to Newton in that summer of 1959 and Elsie continued her high school education at Berean Acadamy, Elbing, Kansas, graduating in the class of '63. The next four years were spent at Grace Bible Institute, (now Grace University) Omaha, Nebraska pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Christian Education. Her employment path took a different direction than she had expected. She got involved in electronic work in Newton and Peabody. From there she went to work for Martin-Merietta Corp. in Colorado. Eventually she graduated from University of Phoenix with a degree in Business Administration. She developed her own business as a traveling book keeper, maintaining a circuit of small businesses to whom she traveled to do their financial books. Survivors include two brothers, Paul and wife Hildegard, of Rhinelander, Wisconsin and Alva and wife Earlene, of Vancouver, Washington and a sister Susie and husband Asher, of Elkhart, Kansas, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Elsie was preceded in death by her parents, a brother-in-law, Jacob Barkman, and a sister-in-law, Linda Goossen. �Service Information A service summary is not available