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Goss Family Book, Part II

Grandchildren of Andrew GOSS¹ (1840-1912)

Estella Evangeline (GOSS) TISCORNIA (1892-1978)

112. Estella "Stella" Evangeline Goss was born on November 30, 1892, in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. She married George Victor Tiscornia, a grandson of Italian immigrants, on April 3, 1915, in Merced, Merced County, California and raised four children:

1121.	James Victor "Buddy" Tiscornia	31 Oct 1915	2 Sep 1935	(19)
1122.	Inez R. Tiscornia	26 Sep 1917	(29) May 2011	(93)
1123.	Donnis Tiscornia	--	--	--
1124.	William "Bill" Darrell Tiscornia	5 May 1926	31 Oct 2009	(83)

Estella "Stella" Evangeline (Goss) Tiscornia died on March 21, 1978, at the age of 85. At the time she lived in Merced, Merced County, California.

George Victor Tiscornia died seven months later on October 24, 1978, in Merced.

James Albert GOSS, Jr. (1897-1899)

113. James Albert Goss, Jr. was born on June 1, 1897, in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. He died on April 20, 1899, a month and 10 days shy of his second birthday. He is buried at the Coulterville Cemetery.

Zelda Kathryn (GOSS) HUDSON (1903-1984)

114. Zelda Kathryn Goss was born on November 10, 1903, in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. She married Joseph Bruce Hudson around 1925 but had no children.

After their marriage, Zelda and Joseph lived through 1930 with Zelda's parents on Stockston Street in Coulterville. Joe worked as a machinist at a garage.^{[Cen 1930]}

By 1935, the Goss and Hudson family moved to Main Street where James operated a gas station and Joe worked an equipment operator on county roads.^{[Cen 1940]}

Joseph Bruce Hudson died on April 10, 1981, while they resided in Oakdale, Stanislaus County, California. He was 77 years old.

Zelda Kathryn (Goss) Hudson died three and a half years on October 20, 1984, at the age of 80. Both are buried at the Coulterville Cemetery in Coulterville, Mariposa County.

Ila Anna GOSS-BARRETT (1905-2006)

115. Ila Anna Goss was born on May 14, 1905, in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. She married Frank Harry Barrett, a grandson of Irish, Scottish, and Italian immigrants, on July 2, 1924, in Modesto, Stanislaus County, California. Together they tended to old Coulterville and kept up the museum and post office. Their deep ties to and knowledge of the old town made them the town historians. They had four daughters:

1151.	Russelle Barrett	--	--	--
1152.	Wilma "Billy" Pearl Barrett	24 Sep 1926	7 May 2018	(91)
1153.	Patsy Barrett	--	--	--
1154.	Frankie Barrett	--	--	--

Ila Anna Goss and Frank Harry Barrett were married by Rev. Marcus P. McClure on July 2, 1924, at the home of Asa and Mabel Procily at 127 Sierra Drive, Modesto, Stanislaus County, California.

The Barretts moved to Merced, Merced County, where their first daughter was born. Next they moved to the Barrett family homestead in Merced Falls with Frank's widowed father, Harry Barrett. Frank opened a garage and service station there and their three younger daughters were all born there.

In 1936 they sold the Merced Falls homestead and moved up to Ferry Street in Coulterville where Frank was a cattle rancher and served as justice of the peace for four years. Ila worked as a storekeeper and homemaker.

During World War II the family lived near Merced where Frank worked at the Del Monte Orchards as a blacksmith, welder and horse shoer. When the war was over they returned to Coulterville where Frank operated Barrett's Garage and Service Station, assisted by his wife Ila. They added a grocery store and museum of early day curios, his lifelong hobby, operating it until retirement in 1963.^{[Obit 1977]}

Frank loved mechanics and especially blacksmithing and both he and Ila loved collecting antiques and traveling.^{[Obit 1977]}

Frank Harry Barrett died on January 12, 1977, following a short illness. Services were held at the Franklin and Down Colonial Chapel in Modesto on the 15th he was laid to rest at the Coulterville Cemetery.^{[Obit 1977]}

Ila Anna Goss-Barrett died 29 years later on July 29, 2006. She was 101 years old! Ila is buried along side Frank at the Coulterville Cemetery.

Eloise "Bussie" Irene (GOSS) LEMONS (1908-2002)

116. Eloise "Bussie" Irene Goss was born on May 31, 1908, in California and married Clayborn "Clabe" Wicker Lemons about 1928. They had four sons, including twins:

1161.	James Darrel Lemons	--	--	--
1162.	Wayne Lemons	--	--	--
1163.	Ray Albert Lemons	14 Apr 1932	11 May 1939	(7)
1164.	Roy Alvin Lemons	14 Apr 1932	9 Jun 1995	(63)

After their marriage, the young family resided with Clabe's parents at 849 Fourth Avenue in Oakdale, Stanislaus County, California, at least through the 1930 census.

Clayborn Wicker Lemons died on November 20, 1984, in Stanislaus County, California at the age of 83. He is buried at the Coulterville Cemetery.

Eloise "Bussie" Irene (Goss) Lemons died on October 20, 2002, in Stanislaus County. She was 94 years old.

William Albert GOSS (1899-1966)

141. William Albert Goss was born on August 3, 1899, in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. He was likely named for his uncle William A. Goss, who had died eight years earlier. He married Wilma Edith Andrews, a native of Ohio, about 1926 and had two daughters:

1411.	Norma Jean Goss	17 Sep 1930	17 Sep 2005	(75)
1412.	Loralee Ruth Goss	23 Mar 1933	17 Jan 1982	(48)

Will married Wilma when he was 26 years old and she 21 years old, and settled down at 721 Wheeler Street, several blocks east of his parents' place on Roberts Avenue in Santa Rosa. There Will worked as a bill poster for a sign company.^{[Cen 1930]} By 1940, the family moved about two miles north to 630 Silva Avenue. Will continues to work as a bill poster.^{[Cen 1940]}

William Albert Goss died on March 13, 1966, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, and buried at the Santa Rosa Memorial Park on March 15, 1966. He was 66 years old.

Wilma Edith (Andrews) Goss died 17 years later on October 14, 1983, in Santa Rosa. She was 78 years old.

Lloyd Andrew GOSS³ (1912-1981)

142. Lloyd Andrew Goss³ was born September 19, 1912, in Jamestown, Tuolumne County, California. He was the second son of Benjamin Roland Goss and Alice Lucretia Converse. He was a carpenter. Lloyd married Hazel Elizabeth Malugani⁴ on March 27, 1937, in Carson City, Nevada, and raised three children in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California:

1421.	Gayle Goss	--	--	--
1422.	Judith Goss	--	--	--
1423.	Gary Goss4	--	--	--

Lloyd Andrew Goss was born in Jamestown but the Goss family soon after left Jamestown for Colusa, Colusa County, where they lived at 222 Market Street. Father Benjamin worked as an auto mechanic and Lloyd attended elementary school.^{[Cen 1920]} In the early 1920s, the family temporarily settled for a year in Myrtle Point, Coos County, Oregon, where they lived in a tent priorior to returning to California and settled down in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County in 1923. Lloyd attended school in the Roseland District at least through 1928.

Lloyd joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, part of President Roosevelt's New Deal during the Great Depression, a month after it was established in April 1933. He joined on May 20 at Fort McDowell (now known as Angel Island) on the San Francisco Bay in Marin County, California. When he enrolled he was listed as a farmer. In June he began work as a laborer at Hawkins Bar, near Salyer, along the Klamath River in the Trinity National Forest, Trinity County, California; however, on September 14, a request was made to terminate his enrollment and he was discharged on October 5, 1933.

On March 27, 1937, Lloyd, age 24, married Hazel Elizabeth Malugani, age 18, in Carson City, Nevada. According to Hazel they met at the "Midway" dance hall on Sebastopol Road when Lloyd mistook her for someone else.

After their marriage, Lloyd and Hazel lived in the lower level of Lloyd's parents' home in Santa Rosa on Roberts Avenue. They later found their own place at 251 Barham Avenue^{[Cen 1940]} on the other side of the railroad tracks. Daughters Gayle and Judy were born there and in 1942 the family moved back to Roberts Avenue where son Gary⁴ was born. Around 1946, the Goss family moved to Lloyd's father's new home at 1200 Brush Creek while Lloyd built their new home at 939 Middle Rincon Road.^{[Cen 1950]} They lived at this "temporary house" over 30 years until Lloyd's death in 1981.

Lloyd took his apprenticeship in carpentry under Bob Whiting and worked for contractor Clyde Hansen after Lloyd and Hazel's wedding in 1937. He also worked for contractors Walter Rathke, Christiansen & Foster, and ultimately Foster after he split from Christiansen & Foster. It was from Foster that Lloyd retired.

Lloyd was 5' 11" tall, slender, with sandy blond hair combed straight back. His hobbies included hunting, mostly deer and raccoon hunting; and fishing, mostly salmon, halibut, trout, and surf fishing—although he generally didn't like to eat fish, save for smoked salmon. Camping also played a big part in Lloyd's recreation. Weekend trips were very common, many of the trips in the earlier days were up to Albion Bay in Mendocino County, where he had a salmon trawler named Narvik. Lloyd frequented the campsites at Lake Berryessa in Napa County, notably Markley Cove, and fished the waters of the Russian River in Sonoma County with stops at the Cassini Ranch campground.

In the late 1970s Lloyd took up C.B. radio as a hobby and joined the Double O' Buddy recreational vehicle club. With the handles "Santa Rosa Drifter" and "Lucky Lady," Lloyd and Hazel frequented the coast, notably Goat Rock which marks the mouth of the Russian River, with their friends in their fifth-wheel trailer. As Hazel recalled, it was during the C.B. radio gatherings that Lloyd, after 40 years of shunning dances, really took to dancing and became quite a smooth dancer.

Lloyd Andrew Goss died at home under hospice care at Middle Rincon Road on August 1, 1981, following a battle with lung cancer. During his last days, grandson Ryan Goss was sitting watch bedside when Lloyd sat up, said his final words, "Goddamnit, I forgot my fishing license," and then laid back down and slipped into a coma of several days. Daughter Gayle was at his bedside when he finally passed. Lloyd was 68 years old. He is inurned at Santa Rosa Memorial Park in Santa Rosa.

From the perspective of his grandchildren (self included), Lloyd was a mischievous old man who loved to torment his grandchildren. Games included giving his pipe to young children for a puff and giving "Dutch rubs" or "knuckleas." We generally tried to steer clear of Grandpa whenever he was in a playful mood. You were also warned to be quiet during Grandpa's nap time, which he never missed, and had best "get out of the rocks" in his pee gravel driveway. Teasing grandchildren aside, he was an extraordinarily hard-working man. He was constantly in motion working in the yard...building something, fixing something, gardening...or getting ready for another outdoor excursion. His final months were unforgettably sad as he had to rely on his children and teen-aged grandchildren to take care of his chores while he supervised from the confines of his wheel chair.

Hazel (Malugani) Goss died 37 years later, in 2018, at her home in Santa Rosa. She was 99 years old. She joined Lloyd at Santa Rosa Memorial Park.

Charles Donald GOSS (1916-1955)

161. Charles "Charlie"/"Don" Donald Goss was born on October 3, 1916, in Jamestown, Tuolumne County, California. He appears to have been named for his uncle Charles A. Goss. Don married Jeanne L. Hewitt, a native of North Dakota, by 1946 and fathered three daughters:

1611.	Margaret Goss	--	--	--
1612.	Marilee Goss	--	--	--
1613.	Andrea Goss	--	--	--

Don graduated from Sonora Union High School in 1934, and by 1940 had completed a year of college and was working as a salesman for a wholesale woolen distributor.^{[Cen 1940]}

Don later enlisted with the U.S. Navy Reserve and served as Boatswain's Mate Second Class (BM2) during World War II.

After the war, Don served as a lineman with Bell Telephone in San Francisco, where his daughters were born. In 1950, the Goss family lived in the upper unit at 530 Hugo Street in San Francisco.^{[Cen 1950]}

Don later moved to Madera, Madera County, and joined the highway patrol in July 1952. Upon becoming a patrolman, Don decided to switch to going by his first name, Charles, and became known among the patrolman as "Charlie."

Don and Jeanne are recalled to have been a pleasure to watch on the dance floor. Both were quite musical and passed that talent to their daughters.

On a foggy morning after Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1955, Charlie responded to an auto accident near Red Top on Highway 152, west of Chowchilla. Four men, Alfred D. Reid, 37, Tony Fiorentino, 18, Tony Mastro, 18, and John Ambry, 18, all from Fresno, had been heading west to Los Banos to hunt pheasants when they were involved in an accident. Charlie picked them up and was taking them back east toward Chowchilla for medical treatment when, as they crossed the fog-shrouded, two-lane Ash Slough Bridge on Highway 152, an oncoming car driven by Ernest Welch attempted to pass a truck only to collide head-on into Charlie's patrol car. Charlie was killed instantly and passengers Fiorentino and Reid were critically injured.

Charles Donald Goss was interred three days later, November 28, at the Arbor Vitae Cemetery in Madera. He was only 39 years old.^[Grave]

Jeanne went on to remarry to Kenneth W. Ford, a widower, in Monterey County on June 16, 1976. Ken died on May 9, 1995, in Madera, at the age of 83 years. He was buried with his first wife Helen at Arbor Vitae Cemetery.^[Grave]

Jeanne L. (Hewitt Goss) Ford died on August 3, 2006, while living in Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo County, California. She was 91 years old. Jeanne's ashes were laid with Charlie's in Arbor Vitae Cemetery two months later on October 20.

67 years after Charles's tragic death, the Madera California Highway Patrol dedicated the 5-mile stretch of Highway 152, from Road 5 to Road 10, to his memory on March 27, 2023. Charles's three daughters and their families attended the dedication, along with two survivors of the deadly crash.

Gertrude Phyllis (GOSS) BIGELOW (1921-2011)

162. Gertrude Phyllis Goss was born on February 14, 1921, in Tuolumne County, California. She married Roy Edwin Bigelow, a native of Berkeley, Alameda County, California, on May 29, 1948. They had two children:

1621.	Deborah Bigelow	--	--	--
1622.	Joshua Bigelow	--	--	--

Gertrude and Roy were married on May 29, 1948, in Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona, by Superior Court Judge Hugh L. Russell. Gertrude was 27 years old and Roy was 46, however, he was recorded as 38 years old on their marriage license and certificate. Witnesses to their marriage were Margery McNary and Beatrice Prochnow. Both Gertrude and Roy were living in Los Angeles at the time.^{[Mar 1948]}

After their marriage, they moved back to Gertrudes hometown of Jamestown and lived in the "3rd house on Main Street." Roy worked as a general contractor in the building trade .^{[Cen 1950]}

The Bigelows moved north to Chico, Butte County, by 1969 and lived at 326 West 1st Avenue by 1970.^{[News 1970]}

Roy Edwin Bigelow died on October 11, 1997, in Alameda County, California, at the age of 95 years. He was buried at Saint James Catholic Cemetery in Jamestown.^[Grave]

Gertude Phyllis (Goss) Bigelow died 13 years later on April 8, 2011, at the age of 90 years. She was also buried at Saint James Catholic Cemetery in Jamestown.^[Grave]