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Courage & Renewal Tribute Room
We invite you to share stories, remembrances and photos of these departed friends who continue to teach us
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Judy Goodell:
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Judy Goodell:
These words were shared by Judy’s son on her Facebook page. Thank you Margaret Golden for passing them along
“It is with sadness I write these words on my Mothers Facebook page. To friends, students, and colleagues that may be unaware, Judith (Judy) passed away recently. She was eighty years old and led a full, full, life. My mother was born August 20th, 1940 in Boulder Colorado. She grew up literally at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. For her and her three older brothers, the columbine covered mountains were their playground. That was the beginning of a lifelong love of hiking and the outdoors. She was named high school Valedictorian before earning her BA from the University of Hawaii. She moved to California in 1965, marrying my father, Richard Goodell. She earned her MA at California State University, Sacramento and worked as a K-12 School Psychologist for thirty years. Throughout her life she traveled the world with both family and friends. My Mother was not one to let grass grow under her feet. At the age of forty, she returned to school, earning her doctoral degree from the University of San Francisco. To celebrate her fiftieth birthday, she climbed Mount Whitney. When she turned sixty, she walked one hundred miles on the Camino de Compostela. And throughout most of her seventies, she continued to teach full time at the University of San Francisco, as well as donating her time and her passion to various professional projects and service work. Some of her strongest traits; empathy, patience, and kindness made her an equally effective counselor, teacher, and parent. She never lost the desire to learn. Finally, she was an extremely proud grandmother to her five grandkids, Robin, Danny, Ryan, Gunther, and Samantha.
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