ARTHUR LEE GOODIN

CHARLESTON -- Arthur Lee Goodin, 73, of Charleston, died Friday, Aug. 2, 1991, at Baptist Central Hospital in Memphis.

He was born Sept. 8, 1917, in New London, Ark., son of Arthur S. and Betty Williams Gooden. After his natural parents died, he was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lee.

He was Mississippi County Clerk from 1955 until 1982. He was also a member of the First Baptist Church in Charleston, the Masonic Lodge 407, VFW Post 4294 and served as Kentucky Colonel and Duke of Paducah.

He was an Air Force veteran of World War II. He served as 1st Lieutenant pilot of a B-24 bomber and was shot down on April 9, 1944. He spent 14 months as a prisoner of war in Barth, Germany.

On March 9, 1946, he married Dorothy Jane Finley. She survives.

Other survivors are two sons, John Gooden, Charleston and Artie Gooden, Sikeston; one daughter, Lucianne Lee Gooden, Charleston; one sister, Ellen Ruth Presson, Memphis; and four grandchildren.

Two brothers preceded him in death.

Service will be held today at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Charleston. The Revs. Gerald Collier and Paul Lathum will officiate.

Burial will follow in the IOOF Cemetery north of Charleston.