- Date Of Birth: October 18, 1941
- Date Of Death: June 18, 2022
- State: North Carolina
Eleanor Dare Edmundson Gooding, age 80, passed Saturday morning at Wayne/UNC Health Care. Born in Wayne County, NC, she was the daughter of the late Luby Erastus and Atha Ginn Edmundson. A 1960 graduate of Pikeville High School, Eleanor earned her Associates Degree in Nursing thru training with Wayne Memorial Hospital. Prior to her retirement with Cherry Hospital, she was a registered nurse with Wayne Memorial Hospital ER, Barry of Goldsboro and AP Parts and O’Berry Center. She was also a member of Community Baptist Church.
Eleanor is survived by her husband of 42 years, Bobby Lee Gooding; sons, Hank Kearney & wife, Virginia, Bruce Kearney & girlfriend, Kaye Howell, Bobby Lee Gooding, Jr & wife, Shirley Proctor, and Rodney Ray Gooding & wife, LeeAnn; sister, Laurie Andrews & husband, Thomas; fourteen grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren.
Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Walter Kearney; her son, Bob Kearney; her brothers, John Edmundson, George Edmundson and Keith Edmundson.
