Ada Goering

Ada Mae Goering, longtime resident of Neodesha, Kansas, died Tuesday, February 12, 2013, at Juniper Village in Monte Vista, Colorado. She was 95 years old. At the familys request, cremation has taken place and a memorial service will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, February 23, 2013, at the First Christian Church in Neodesha under the direction of Loran Fawcett Funeral Home. Pastor Jack Kyle will officiate. A private interment with family will take place later in the afternoon at the Neodesha Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Friday, February 22 from 68 p.m. at the Fawcett Chapel.
Ada Mae Goering was born September 4, 1917 on a farm near Moundridge, Kansas. She was the oldest daughter of Mary Kauffman and Henry J. Goering. She received an honor diploma from Pioneer School, and following her graduation from Moundridge High School in 1935, she attended Bethel College in Newton, Kansas.
On August 17, 1937, she was united in marriage to Alvin A. Goering at the Eden Mennonite Church near Moundridge. They moved to Rocky Ford, Colorado, where Mr. Goering began his first teaching job. They stayed there for four years and began their family. In 1941 they relocated to Neodesha, Kansas, where Mr. Goering taught industrial arts at Neodesha High School, while Mrs. Goering provided a wonderful home for their five children.
In addition to being a devoted homemaker, Mrs. Goering was an active member of the community and the First Christian Church of Neodesha, serving as President of Christian Womens Fellowship for 12 years. In this leadership capacity, her creative talents were used in writing skits, childrens sermons, and planning special events such as Mothers Day programs as well as serving as director of Vacation Bible School. For more than fifteen years she collected and cleaned clothing to send to the needy. As an active quilter, she and others in the church made many quilts to send to the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Until a year before her death, she made baby quilts for the Hopi children. Mrs. Goering was active in Scouting, serving as a Den Mother from 196469. She sponsored or assisted with many events including Blue and Gold Banquets, Cub Scout Day Camps, Pinewood Derby, and Scout Courts of Honor. For her contribution to the Osage Nations District Committee, she was presented the Helping Hand Award. Additionally Mrs. Goering cleaned and repaired hundreds of Scout uniforms and sewed many hundreds of patches on uniforms so that every boy could have one. She published a small handbook for Cub Scouts that included original skits and information on the construction of papermache masks. Many of her skits were presented at Scout and community events using her own material. Mrs. Goering was awarded the prestigious Silver Beaver Award in 1981, the highest award given by the Quivira Boy Scout Council. Known for her fine cooking skills, Mrs. Goering for many years provided rolls and pastries for church dinners, as well as other events. No one who ever ate them will forget how delicious they were. Mrs. Goering also enjoyed sewing, bicycling, playing piano, hiking, reading, and writing stories and poetry.
After her children were grown, she enjoyed traveling with Mr. Goering to Hawaii, Acapulco, Europe, and China. In Russia, they visited historical sites where their SwissGerman Mennonite ancestors once lived.
On March 14, 2007, Mr. Goering passed away, and Mrs. Goering moved to Vintage Park at Neodesha. There she lived until moving to Colorado in September, 2012. She was preceded in death by four siblings Ellis, Martha, Ozzie, and Ralph, and by two daughters Jodie, and Jeanne. A sister, Kathryn News, survives as do four children, Keith and his wife Mary Ann Dvorachek, Kent and wife June Sherwood, Kevin and wife Susan Liimatta, and Jan and her husband Ed Lammers. Additional survivors are two granddaughters, Camille, and Kristin, and two greatgrandchildren, Natalia and Sofia. She left seven stepgrandchildren and four stepgreat grandchildren that include Dorothy, Matt, Jill, Oscar, Lydia, Adam, and Kelly.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Hopi Independent Indian Mission, co Rev. Caleb Johnson, P.O. Box 40, Kykotsmovi, Arizona, 86039, or left with the funeral home.