Marie Goodnight

Mrs. Marie "Bill" Goodman Goodnight, 94, of 2009 Tremont Avenue, passed away Sunday, July 17, 2011, at Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast in Concord. A funeral service is scheduled for 11:00 am Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at First Presbyterian Church. Rev. Catherine George will officiate. Interment will follow at Carolina Memorial Park in Kannapolis. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:00 pm Monday at Lady's Funeral Home and 10:30 to 11:00 am prior to the service on Tuesday at the church. Mrs. Goodnight was born June 6, 1917 in Cabarrus County, NC. She was the youngest child of the late Caleb Jackson Goodman and Lora Fink Goodman. A graduate of Winecoff School, she attended UNC at Greensboro. She formerly worked in the office of Cannon Mills Co. and following retirement she worked as an accomplished seamstress. Having lived her entire life in the area, she was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Kannapolis where she held offices in The Women of the Church, church circles and Sunday school classes. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Raymond W. Goodnight to whom she married on August 8, 1948. Also preceding her in death were four brothers, two sisters and a son-in-law, William David Caldwell. Mrs. Goodnight, is survived by two daughters, Laneece G. Caldwell of Bryson City and Marsha G. Weaver and husband, Benny of Venice, FL; one sister, Hazel Pool of Concord; granddaughter, Candice Day and husband Shayne; two grandsons, Jason Weaver and wife Jackie and Mark Weaver and wife Alicia; three great-grandchildren, Cy Weaver, Noah Weaver and Rio Weaver. Memorials may be made to First Presbyterian Church, 201 Vance Street, Kannapolis, NC 28081.