Jesse W. Goodrich
Inventory supervisor
Jesse W. Goodrich, a retired inventory supervisor for Environmental Elements Inc. who was active in community and civic organizations, died of cancer Tuesday at St. Agnes Hospital.
Mr. Goodrich, who was 68 and lived in Halethorpe, retired five years ago after a long career with Environmental Elements and a predecessor, Koppers Co.
Born in Baltimore, he was a graduate of City College and later took courses at several colleges. He served in the Army in the Pacific during World War II and was the immediate past commander of the Dewey Lowman Post of the American Legion.
In 23 years as an auxiliary policeman in Baltimore County, he worked in the Woodlawn and Wilkens districts, did community relations work and attained the rank of lieutenant.
He was a member of the Oriental Lodge of the Masons and served as high priest of the Jerusalem Royal Arch Chapter.
He also had been a Red Cross volunteer worker, first in the blood program and later as a member of a disaster team that assisted victims of fires, Tropical Storm Agnes and other disasters in the Baltimore area, and Hurricane Andrew in Florida.
He also was Sunday school superintendent, usher, lector and church council member at St. Stephen Lutheran Church, at Wilkens Avenue and Courtney Road in Arbutus, where services were to be held at 10 a.m. today.
His first wife, the former Shirley Mae Lenz, died in 1985.
He is survived by his wife, the former Ann Tewey Magrogan; a daughter, Patricia Ann Grace of Baltimore; a son, Dwayne B. Goodrich of Lansdowne; two stepsons, Gerard Magrogan of Baltimore and Michael Magrogan of Catonsville; three stepdaughters, Paula Mathias of Westminster, Teresa Leipold of Eldersburg and Regina Dillard of Baltimore; two sisters, Florence H. Goodrich of Baltimore and Kathryn A. Workman of Columbia; a brother, Charles E. Goodrich of Wilmington, N.C.; and eight grandchildren.
Mildred Wood, 60, who lived in Essex for about 10 years while her husband, the Rev. Hershel Wood, served as pastor of the Community Baptist Church in Chase, died Thursday of cancer at her home in Chattanooga, Tenn.
The former Mildred Young was a native of Virginia who moved to Harford County as a young woman. She had lived for six years in Chattanooga, where her husband is pastor of the Bryant Baptist Tabernacle. Services were set for 11 a.m. today at the Lane Funeral Home in nearby Rossville, Ga.
Surviving, in addition to her husband, are a son, Phil Wood of Parkville; two daughters, Donna Davis and Kim Simcox, both of Rossville; her mother, Temprest Boley, two brothers, Franklin and Arthur Young, and a sister, Bonnie Judd, all of Front Royal, Va.; and two grandchildren.