Sybil Goodman

TORRINGTON, WYOMING...........Funeral services for SYBIL P. GOODMAN 86, were held at 2:00p.m. Thursday, July 5, 2007 at the Colyer Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Robert Ohlson officiating. Burial followed in the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Morrill, Nebraska. Sybil died June 29, 2007 at the Davis Hospice Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Memorials may be made to either the Davis Hospice Center or Gideon?s International. Visitation was held 2:00p.m. to 7:00p.m. on Tuesday, 9:00a.m. to noon on Thursday and at the service. Arrangements were under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends may send condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Sybil was born December 20, 1920 in Leedy, Oklahoma the daughter of Arthur and Priscilla (Wollard) Bailey. She moved with her family at an early age to the Morrill, Nebraska area where she grew and graduated from Morrill High School in 1938. At a young age she was missed diagnosed with tuberculosis but had to spend time in a TB sanatarium in Fremont, Nebraska. She married Mike Goodman on November 24, 1940 in Mitchell, Nebraska and they moved to the Torrington area. She worked at the Sager?s Restaurant which later became the Indian Grill. On January 2, 1967 she started working at the Torrington Police Department as a dispatcher and spent twenty-four years there before retiring in 1991. Sybil loved hunting deer, antelope, pheasant, and especially turkeys, gardening especially flowers, cooking and canning, oil painting, baseball especially the Colorado Rockies, and gnome statues. She was an avid Christmas decorator and decorated her own clothes as well. She had many other interests as well including family dice games, butterflies, gemstones and jewelry with gemstones. She played the piano, guitar, harmonica and as a young woman sang with her husband and alone. As a young woman she was a tropical fish specialist until it became to much to handle. She worked with the Salvation Army and played harmonica in a band for them. Sybil is survived by four sons, Gary Goodman and his wife Jean and Greg Goodman and his wife Therese all of Cheyenne, Roger Goodman and his wife Rhonda of Casper, Wyoming, and Tim Goodman and his wife Charmain of Irene, South Dakota; a sister Wauneta Ferrari of Torrington; ten grandchildren; and sixteen great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; four sisters; five brothers; and one daughter-in-law.

Sybil Goodman

December 20, 1920 - June 29, 2007