Dennis Goodnough

From oil rigs to police service, to farming and ranching, he lived a diverse and full life. His greatest love was family. He engaged in real and meaningful ways with each of his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He knew them, and they knew him. Always excited about the next year, the next challenge, he infected all of us with his pioneering spirit, but left the direction for each to discover. This was his greatest achievement. He comes from a long line of pioneers. From the family patriarch, Thomas Goodenowe, who left England in 1638 to emigrate to Sudbury, Massachusetts, to his grandfather, Frank Goodnough, who was born in New York state in 1855 and moved westward, building a farm in Iowa and then in Minnesota until finally scouting out the Moose Jaw area in 1909. In 1910, he brought his wife Angie and his young family up from Minnesota, and the Goodnoughs sunk deep roots in Saskatchewan. The youngest of that young family was Arthur, age 14, who would eventually marry Katharina (Katherine) Letkeman, and together they raised a large family of industrious children, including Dennis. The sixth generation is now old enough to be teaching school, so generation seven is not far away.