Goodykoontz rites Sunday; was a painter<\/strong>.\u00a0 A heart attack last Friday claimed the life of a retired South Clinton painter, who had resided in this area for about 35 years and was widely known.<\/p>\n Stricken as he sat on the front porch of the home of Mrs. James Billyeu, his daughter on Old Knoxville Highway about 7:30 p.m. was William L. Goodykoontz, 83, who was pronounced dead on arrival at Oak Ridge Hospital.\u00a0 Doctors said he apparently died instantly.<\/p>\n Boron in Lake City, Mr. Goodykoontz with the others of his family moved to Texas for several years before he came back and settled in South Clinton.\u00a0 He was a painter by trade and worked independently throughout the Clinton area.<\/p>\n He was a member and a trustee of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in South Clinton and in his earlier years was a member of the Clinton I. O. O. F.<\/p>\n Survivors, in addition to Mrs. Billyeu, are three other daughters, Mrs. Fred Hutchinson of Atlanta, Mrs. Clyde Kosier and Mrs. John Brantley, both of Knoxville; 12 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; three brothers, Albert, John and Joe Goodykoontz, and a sister, Mrs. Margaret Farmer, all of Harlingen, Texas.<\/p>\n Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Martin\u2019s chapel with the Rev. Ernest Goins and the Rev. Jimmy Riner officiating.\u00a0 Burial was in Longfield Cemetery in Lake City.<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0 Clinton Courier-News<\/em>, August 17, 1967, Section 1, Page 8<\/p>\n [Transcribed from a photocopy of the microfilm in the genealogy vertical files at Lake City Library.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obituary of William L. Goodykoontz, 1967: Goodykoontz rites Sunday; was a painter.\u00a0 A heart attack last Friday claimed the life of a retired South Clinton painter, who had resided in Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-e-h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5163,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/5163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}