Crawfordsville Journal Review 21 May 1960 p 4 -- Wallace - Frank Basil Goff, 60-year-old
prominent resident of Jackson Twp, 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. Hew as serving his second
term as Jackson Township trustee at the time of his death and had served seveal years as
president and director of Wallace Telephone Company. 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 Wolf Creek Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife; a son, Charles Goff of
New Market; two daughters, Mrs. Alice Merryman of near Kingman and Mrs. Pauline Brown of
Tamps, FL; 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 Luterhan Cemetery. Friends may call at the
family residence three miles east of here from 2 p.m. Thursday until the hour of the
funeral.