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February 11, 1975 Tuesday  Middletown Journal, Middletown, Ohio

William Goodman
    Services for William Apple Goodman, 43, of 403 Glenn St., Trenton, will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home, with the Rev. Richard Bright officiating. Burial will be in Butler County Memorial Park.
    Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday from 6 to 9 p.m. The family suggests memorials be made to the Trenton Public Library.
    Mr. Goodman died Monday at Middletown Hospital. He is survived by his wife, Velma; son, William A. Goodman, Jr.; daughter, Vicki Lynn Goodman; all of Trenton, his mother, Margaret A. Goodman; and sister, Peggy Short. He was preceded in death by his father, Layton M. Goodman, Sr.

February 12, 1975  Wednesday  Middletown Journal, Middletown, Ohio

IN MEMORY OF BILL GOODMAN
Trenton Library Closed Today
    TRENTON - The Trenton branch of the Middletown Public Library will be closed today, in memory of Bill Goodman, chairman of the citizens' library committee, who died early Monday.
Arthur Wolman, library director, announced that a newly opened reading room at the Trenton brach will be named the Bill Goodman Reading Room, in a move that had been planned before Mr. Goodman's "untimely death" at the age of 43.
    The naming of the room was an idea initiated by the library committee, and is being carried out cooperatively by the committee and library trustees.
    "The board of trustees of the Public Library is planning to introduce at its February board meeting, to be held on the 18th, the naming of the reading room...in honor of Bill Goodman, for his creative leadership in transforming the space offered by the city of Trenton into a vital community cultural asset," Wolman commented.
    Before being named chairman of the library committee, Mr. Goodman had for several months coordinated Trenton Lions' work in renovating the frame building at 17 E. State St., though he was ailing. Lions devoted more than 500 man hours to the project.
     Mrs. Mark (Louise) Richter, secretary of the citizens' committee, said the reading room was "not part of the original library plan at all" and the plan for it was initiated by Mr. Goodman.
    "There was an urgency about his dedication that was contagious. We all felt, because of his dedication and urgency, that we all wanted to contribute that same kind of effort," Mrs. Richter said of the total library project.
"We would not have a library if it had not been for Bill Goodman," she commented.
    Ray Weidle and Mrs. Jo Iwig of the citizens' committee are in charge of arranging for a plaque for the formal dedication of the reading room.