Goss Family History, 3rd Generation
Back Row:Judith (Goss) Stewart
Gayle (Goss) Steele
Loralee Ruth (Goss Baccelli) Couture
Clabe Wicker Lemons
Eloise “Bussie” (Goss) Lemons
Hazel (Malugani) Goss
Wilma (Andrews) Goss
William Albert Goss
Front Row:
Gary Goss4
Benjamin Roland Goss2
James Albert Goss
William Albert Goss (1899-1966)
141. William “Will” Albert Goss was born on , 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, on and had two daughters:
| Name | Birth | Death | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1411. | Norma Jean Goss | (75) | ||
| 1412. | Loralee Ruth Goss | (48) |
Will married Wilma on , when he was 26 years old and she 21 years old. They honeymooned in Southern California[News 1926], and then 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 continued to work as a bill poster.[Cen 1940, 1950]
William Albert Goss died on , in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, and buried at the Santa Rosa Memorial Park on .[Grave] He was 66 years old.
Wilma Edith (Andrews) Goss died 17 years later on , in Santa Rosa, and was also buried at the Santa Rosa Memorial Park.[Grave] She was 78 years old.
Lloyd Andrew Goss3 (1912-1981)
142. Lloyd Andrew Goss3 was born , 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 , in Carson City, Nevada, and raised three children in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California:
| Name | Birth | Death | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1421. | Gayle GossΔ | 1940 | 2026 | (86) |
| 1422. | Judith GossΔ | -- | -- | -- |
| 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 . He joined on 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 , a request was made to terminate his enrollment and he was discharged on .
On , 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 a member of Carpenters Local Union No. 751.[Obit 1981]
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.