Elizabeth Hipps Goodman
05/18/1927 – 09/11/2021
Obituary for Elizabeth Hipps Goodman
Elizabeth Hipps Goodman
Elizabeth Hipps Goodman, a life well lived, following the disciplines of our Lord, born May 18, 1927 in Knoxville, Tennessee, peacefully entered into the arms of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Saturday, September 11, 2021.
Sis. Goodman was united in holy matrimony to the late Freddie Lee Goodman and
to this union three children were born, Patricia Olivia, Athanese, and Bennie Lee Goodman.
She attended the Knoxville City Schools and is a graduate of Austin High.
Sis. Goodman was employed for many years with Atlanta Life Insurance.
She professed her hope and love for Jesus Christ and was a faithful member of the Canaan Baptist Church under the pastorate of Dr. Harold Middlebrook. She loved serving the Lord and taking care of her family. She also loved cooking nourishing meals for her family and tending to her flower gardens.
Along with her husband, Freddie Lee and daughters, Patricia and Athanese, she was preceded in death by mother, Altee Selsom; sister, Audrey Booker, grandson, Gaines Rodgers Lenoir III.
Left to cherish her memory are her devoted son, Bennie Goodman and his wife, Maria; granddaughter, Azure Stacy; grandsons, Damon Lenoir and Miguel Pettus and his wife Rochelle; great-grandchildren, Kjuan Stacy-Wright, Michael Dardin, Gracie, Selena, Seven, and Bentley Pettus, Damon Jr., Shante, Deanna, Darion, Brianna, and Devin Lenoir, Cherry and Ariel; special sister-in-law, Juanita Goodman, and special friends, Stacy Cotton and Helen Waters; many other family members and friends.
Family will receive friends, 12:00-12:30 p.m., Saturday, September 18, 2021 at Mt. Zion
Baptist Church, 195 Wilberforce Avenue, Oak Ridge,TN; homegoing celebration, 12:30 p.m., Elder Henry Watson, Officiating, Rev. Dr. Harold Middlebrook, Eulogist.
Interment Oak Ridge Memorial Park.
Arrangements by JARNIGAN & SON MORTUARY
www.jarniganandson.com
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Receiving of Friends
Saturday, September 18, 2021
12:00-12:30 p.m.
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
195 Wilberforce Avenue, Oak Ridge,TN
Homegoing Celebration
Saturday, September 18, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
195 Wilberforce Avenue, Oak Ridge,TN
Graveside
Saturday, September 18, 2021
Oak Ridge Memorial Park
1501 Bethel Valley Rd, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
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God has reached down on his earthly garden and plucked another rose from it. Ms Elizabeth has gone home to receive her just reward, but will never be forgotten by the many who knew her and knew of her. She was known as one of the mothers of the Chestnut Ridge Neighborhood when it took a village to raise a kid. Every child in the neighborhood had only the utmost respect for not only her, but all the elders in the neighborhood. We will miss the sweet tea that she made and how delicious it was. There may be tears at this moment, but rest assure joy will come in the morning. I ask the family and friends of Ms Elizabeth to look to the hills from which commit our help, our help commit from the Lord. We will see Ms Elizabeth again in that sweet by and by where every day will be just like Sunday and Sabbath will have no end. Oh, what a time, what a good time that will be. May the loving memories of Ms Elizabeth be of great comfort unto the family and friends. My prayers are with you during this time. May God smile down upon you and give you peace.
Bennie & Family your mother will be missed on this earth, but she will never be forgotten. Our Lord and Savior has a greater plan for her. She planted good seed’s to all the kids in the neighborhood village, which produced learning about nutrition and gaining job skills through gardening with good soil, which produces a great harvest of great fruitful good- hearted and honest people with love, joy, peace, kindness and self control. A lesson which produces a beautiful life. Luke 8:4 – 8, 11-15.