Individual Details
MILAN HARVEY GOODOIEN
(30 Apr 1906 - 27 Mar 1992)
Played banjo with Lawrence Welk
By Patricia Kulhavy November 2oo9:
Dad was a musician. He traveled with a Medicine Show for 7 years before he got married and had some good stories to tell about that. They spent off hours making the 'Elixir' that the show sold and it would cure anything. And in those days they sold a lot of it. I have some pictures of him beside the van and I will have my daughter scan them when she comes home for Christmas. She works in a photo studio in Minneapolis so I will have her do it or show me how. Dad was multi talented. Musician, trucker, Air Raid Warden during the WW2, and could fix a motor, played a mean game of croquet and could fix anything that was put together. Not much work in Hendricks in those days. He just missed the age cut off for going to the Army, so when they heard of good jobs in Hastings, Nebraska at a Ammunition Depot, we moved there in the Fall of 1943. It was a terrible change from the familiarity of Hendricks with family all around. The housing had been thrown up in a hurry and consisted of block houses with little comfort. It was right beside a railroad track and looking back at it, it was like a concentration camp with out the barbed wire. We flattened a lot of pennies on the tracks. One day in school, there was a terrible explosion and we thought the Germans had attacked. Not so. One of the workers carelessly threw away a cigarette and blew up a whole area of the cans they threw over the sides of ships to sink submarines. Dad helped with the bulldozers in the aftermath and the day he quit was the day he pushed a bunch of dirt and an arm came up out of the dirt. No body, just an arm. He came home and said we are going to Rapid City where my Moms family lived then. And that was how we came to be here. I have been ever since. So, Mom and Dad are gone and so are my dear sister and brother and I miss them so much. But, I had a good home growing up where I knew I was loved
By Patricia Kulhavy November 2oo9:
Dad was a musician. He traveled with a Medicine Show for 7 years before he got married and had some good stories to tell about that. They spent off hours making the 'Elixir' that the show sold and it would cure anything. And in those days they sold a lot of it. I have some pictures of him beside the van and I will have my daughter scan them when she comes home for Christmas. She works in a photo studio in Minneapolis so I will have her do it or show me how. Dad was multi talented. Musician, trucker, Air Raid Warden during the WW2, and could fix a motor, played a mean game of croquet and could fix anything that was put together. Not much work in Hendricks in those days. He just missed the age cut off for going to the Army, so when they heard of good jobs in Hastings, Nebraska at a Ammunition Depot, we moved there in the Fall of 1943. It was a terrible change from the familiarity of Hendricks with family all around. The housing had been thrown up in a hurry and consisted of block houses with little comfort. It was right beside a railroad track and looking back at it, it was like a concentration camp with out the barbed wire. We flattened a lot of pennies on the tracks. One day in school, there was a terrible explosion and we thought the Germans had attacked. Not so. One of the workers carelessly threw away a cigarette and blew up a whole area of the cans they threw over the sides of ships to sink submarines. Dad helped with the bulldozers in the aftermath and the day he quit was the day he pushed a bunch of dirt and an arm came up out of the dirt. No body, just an arm. He came home and said we are going to Rapid City where my Moms family lived then. And that was how we came to be here. I have been ever since. So, Mom and Dad are gone and so are my dear sister and brother and I miss them so much. But, I had a good home growing up where I knew I was loved
Events
| Birth | 30 Apr 1906 | Hendricks, Minnesota | |||
| Marriage | 18 Dec 1932 | Hendricks, Minnesota - WILMA JOYCE HUGHES | |||
| Death | 27 Mar 1992 | RAPID CITY, South Dakota |
Families
| Spouse | WILMA JOYCE HUGHES (1913 - ) |
| Child | JAMES HUGHES GOODOIEN (1945 - 1994) |
| Child | PATRICIA ANN GOODOIEN |
| Child | FLORENCE MARIE GOODOIEN (1934 - 1993) |
| Father | Edward John GOODOIEN (1880 - 1963) |
| Mother | Anna Marie ASK (1872 - 1950) |
| Sibling | JAMES HERBERT GOODOIEN (1904 - 1969) |
| Sibling | HILDRETH CORDELIA (1908 - 1973) |
| Sibling | LEONARD MARVIN GOODOIEN (1910 - 1991) |
| Sibling | EDWIN ARNOLD GOODOIEN (1913 - 1965) |
| Sibling | Wallace Myron GOODOIEN (1916 - 1996) |