Birth: Jan. 11, 1915
Tokio
Terry County
Texas, USA
Death: Feb. 19, 2008
Corsicana
Navarro County
Texas, USA
Mr. Charles Alvin "Charlie" Goldsmith, 93, of Corsicana, Texas, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008, at Health Care & Rehab of Corsicana. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at Corley Funeral Home. Funeral services will be 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, at the Corley Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Jerry Turner and Bro. Jeff White officiating. Interment will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Ridge Park Cemetery in Hillsboro, Texas.
Born in Tokio, Texas, to the late S.L. and Esther Annie Goldsmith, Charlie was raised in and around the Tokio community. In his adulthood, he took pride in his work as a weaver and a loom fixer at Textile (Cotton) Mills in West, Itasca, Mexia, Corsicana, Bonham, and Hillsboro, but he could never quite get away from work in the soil.
With an extraordinary green thumb, he always grew a garden wherever he lived, and sometimes fruit trees and berry vines. His greatest joys were his family, his gardening, and his avocation--his passion--music. He played several instruments, but his favorite was his fiddle, and he could mesmerize others with his fiddle playing. He liked to brag that he once sat in with Willie Nelson, playing his fiddle of course, at one of the night clubs that used to be in West. Arthritis robbed him of the pleasure of fiddle playing in his later years, a stroke in 2001 rendered him bedfast, and diabetes cost him his legs. Nevertheless, he was very tough, and God granted him the milestone of 93 years before succumbing to COPD.
Mr. Goldsmith was preceded in death by a son, Larry Charles Goldsmith; five brothers; and five sisters.
He is survived by his wife of 71 years, Irma Deene Davidson Goldsmith; daughter, Amy Jo Patterson and husband, Leslie, of Corsicana; grandchildren and spouses, Phyllis and Wes Cope, Peri Patterson, David and Judy Patterson, Kimberly and Danny Scholl, Debbie and Frank Holloway, and Terri and Gary Turner; and 11 great-grandchildren.
Honorary pallbearers will be Dustin Aaron Hoover, USMC, Toby Scholl, USMC, Brian Patterson, USMC, Seth Cope, James Cope, and Derek Martin.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Research Division of the American Diabetes Association at 12850 Spurling Drive, Suite 100, Dallas, TX 75230.
WT: 2/21/2008...TU2
Charles's father was Samuel Lafayette Goldsmith 1870-1963) and his mother was Ester Ann Stone (1878-1953).
Parents:
Samuel Lafayette Goldsmith (1870 - 1963)
Esther Ann Stone Goldsmith (1878 - 1953)
Spouse:
Irma Deene Davidson Goldsmith (1918 - 2009)
Burial:
Ridge Park Cemetery
Hillsboro
Hill County
Texas, USA
Maintained by: Jerry C. Goldsmith
Originally Created by: Ruth M. Brown
Record added: Feb 21, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 24789554
