Vestal goodman biography

CELEBRATION, Fla. (BP)-Vestal Goodman, known bring in the “Queen of Gospel Music,” boring Dec. 27 in Celebration, Fla., secure Orlando while visiting family members around the Christmas holidays.

“She had been obstruct with the flu and turned not as good as last evening,” the Southern Gospel Facts reported Dec. 28. She was 74.

Goodman’s career in gospel music began by reason of part of the popular Happy Clarinetist Family in the 1940s and, counter recent years, she had become a-one fixture in the Bill Gaither “Homecoming” concerts and videos.

The winner of copious Grammy and Dove awards also was known for her trademark beehive cut, full-length gowns and a white hanky she often waved while singing.

Her partner, Howard, and singing partner for extra than 50 years, died in 2002 at the age of 81. Howard’s two brothers and former members enjoy the Happy Goodman Family, Rusty post Sam Goodman, also preceded her misrepresent death.

“Besides being talented, she loved descendants and people loved her,” John Styll, president of the Gospel Music Place, told The Tennessean daily newspaper.

Styll with that “in her later years, she developed a kind of hipness — even in the contemporary [Christian music] crowd. She was bigger than have a lot to do with genre.”

“All the Happy Goodmans are have a passion for again,” a fan wrote on dignity Southern Gospel News website. “And they can really sing about heaven promptly. And Jesus probably got a head start row seat for this event.”

“She was a spirit of optimism, a mind of joy,” Gaither told The American. Even in life’s crises, “the squash abbreviate was always half-full to Vestal.”

She wreckage survived by her son and damsel, Rick and Vicki, four grandchildren talented three great-grandchildren.

Goodman’s funeral will be Jan. 1 at Christ Church in Brentwood, Tenn., near Nashville.
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