Here are photos of the Goodson family, circa 1943 - newly discovered by Winecoff Fire reader, Cheryl Pampe Fowler. She tells the story of the photos, kept safe for seventy-five years, in her Readers' Mail item.
The Goodson's tragic story is told on pages 51, 52 and 226 of the hardback edition of The Winecoff Fire: The Untold Story of America's Deadliest Hotel Fire.
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| The Goodson home in Clay City, Ill. |
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Living room where Cheryl Pampe Fowler later lived and played.
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The home was on Pure Oil Company land.
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Joe Goodson. a Pure Oil geologist and his wife, Galdys
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Joe Goodson Jr. and son, Joe III
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Gladys Goodson and Joe III
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| Cheryl Pampe Fowler and brother, Carl William Pampe. | |
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The Pampe family moved into the Goodsons' Clay City home in the weeks following the Winecoff fire.
