Mrs. Annie Fortner Goff 90, of Cedar Grove, Tennessee passed away Thursday, October 25, 2012 at Morningside Assisted Living in Paris.
Funeral services will be conducted on Sunday, October 28, 2012 at 5:00 PM in the Chapel of Chase Funeral Home. Interment will be on Monday, October 29, 2012 in the Hickory Flat Cemetery.
The family will receive friends in the Chapel of Chase Funeral Home on Sunday from 3:00 PM until time of service.
Mrs. Goff was preceded in death in 1997 by her faithful, loving husband, Porter Rhuel Goff of Cedar Grove, whom she married on August 28, 1937. She was born November 30, 1921 to the late Andrew Jackson Fortner and Maud Harriet Shackleford Fortner of Cedar Grove. She was the last remaining sibling of a family of seven children who lived and went to school in the New Bethel Community in Carroll County. Her siblings were Rev. James Logan Fortner of Huntingdon, Juanita Mildred Fortner Cash of St. Louis, MO, Birdie Lee Fortner Gordon and Josephine Frances Fortner Baumgardner of Cedar Grove, Garrett Hobart Fortner of Santa Maria, CA and Erin and Mae Fortner Barrells of Medina.
She is survived by one daughter; Patti Jean Goff (husband Tom) Morris of Fayetteville, Georgia and one son; Larry Dwayne Goff (wife Beth) of Buchanan. She also leaves four grandchildren; Thomas Stephen Morris of Barnesville, GA and Jennifer Lurelann Morris (Dennis) Fouts of Griffin, GA; Kelly Denise Goff (Jonathan) Myren of Ooltewah, TN and Angela Dawn Goff Sheek of Elizabethton, TN and six great grandchildren; Alex, Elliana and Spencer Myren, Victoria Brinkley, and Miranda and Julia-Karnan Sheek. She also leaves many nieces, nephews, sisters- and brothers-in law and friends.
"Miss Annie" was a hard worker all her life; working many years at the U.S. Rubber plant and Milan Arsenal in Milan, from which she retired in the 1990's. She was homemaker, a talented seamstress, quilt maker, and an energetic gardener with a definite green thumb. She also loved traveling; and took great pride in her many travels, including Hawaii.