Eugene A. Goe; Wrote Children’s Stories
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Eugene A. Goe, a World War II veteran and writer of children’s stories, has died. He was 67.
Goe, a 20-year U. S. Navy Seabee and longtime Oxnard resident, was a founding member of the Pleasant Valley Bowlers Club. He was also an avid citizens band radio hobbyist and, during the height of the CB craze in the 1970s, was known around Ventura County by his call name “tater picker.”
He is survived by his wife, Agnes, and sons Ernest and Anthony, both of Woodbridge, Va., as well as by daughters Mary Davis of Fort Meyers, Fla., and Judith Fox of Camarillo. He is also survived by sisters Donna Hibbard of Shoshone, Ida., Joan Goe of Salt Lake City, Dianne Walker of Oxnard, Joy Blackburn of Orderville, Utah, and brother Kenneth Goe of Provo, Utah.
Goe had 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services will take place today at 10 a.m. at Conrad-Carroll Mortuary Chapel in Oxnard. Burial will follow at Conejo Mountain Memorial Park in Camarillo.
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