Franklin News-Herald, Tuesday, Aug 16 1960:
Charles H. Goss, 71, of 1244 Otter Street, died at 8:40 pm Sunday in Cleveland Clinic Hospital, where he had been 3 weeks to have surgery for cancer, following failing health for 18 months. He was born in Siverly, now Tenth Ward of Oil City, on May 21, 1889, son of Edgar S. and Bella Stevens Goss.
He had only eight years of formal education in Oil City schools. He went to work as a boy at his father's restaurant, then as a newsboy. At the age of 18 he was an oil well driller, and put down several of the wells on Kelly's Flats. He built drilling rigs and improved methods of recovering oil by his invention of an electric heater that could be put in shallow wells. His intensive desire for industry of all kinds put him into Franklin Steel Works where he was in charge of cutting rails, to Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., where he worked in the stockroom, to Foco Oil Co in the early 1920s, where he was hired to install a batch still at the refinery, then remained as operator of the still and foreman of the pipe-fitting crew. In 1923 the refinery was sold to L. Sonneborn Sons Inc, and he was made superintendent, serving until the death of carl Alsberg in 1950, when he was appointed plant manager. He was a member of Myrtle Lodge, Venango Lodge of Perfection, Franklin Lodge BPO Elks, Franklin Club, and First Presbyterian Church.
On May 22, 1913, in the Franklin Lutheran Church, he married Mary Lavina Yingling, who survives, with a son, Charles E. Goss of Franklin; two daughters, Mrs. W. Blaine (Mary Belle) Emerson of Tallahassee, FL, and Mrs. Charles L. (Gayle) Warner, US Air Force Base, Abilene, TX; two brothers, Robert R. Goss and Harley E. Goss of Franklin.
Services will be at 2 pm Friday at First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Roger F. Naftzger officiating. Interment will be in Franklin Cemetery.
Charles H. Goss, 71, of 1244 Otter Street, died at 8:40 pm Sunday in Cleveland Clinic Hospital, where he had been 3 weeks to have surgery for cancer, following failing health for 18 months. He was born in Siverly, now Tenth Ward of Oil City, on May 21, 1889, son of Edgar S. and Bella Stevens Goss.
He had only eight years of formal education in Oil City schools. He went to work as a boy at his father's restaurant, then as a newsboy. At the age of 18 he was an oil well driller, and put down several of the wells on Kelly's Flats. He built drilling rigs and improved methods of recovering oil by his invention of an electric heater that could be put in shallow wells. His intensive desire for industry of all kinds put him into Franklin Steel Works where he was in charge of cutting rails, to Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., where he worked in the stockroom, to Foco Oil Co in the early 1920s, where he was hired to install a batch still at the refinery, then remained as operator of the still and foreman of the pipe-fitting crew. In 1923 the refinery was sold to L. Sonneborn Sons Inc, and he was made superintendent, serving until the death of carl Alsberg in 1950, when he was appointed plant manager. He was a member of Myrtle Lodge, Venango Lodge of Perfection, Franklin Lodge BPO Elks, Franklin Club, and First Presbyterian Church.
On May 22, 1913, in the Franklin Lutheran Church, he married Mary Lavina Yingling, who survives, with a son, Charles E. Goss of Franklin; two daughters, Mrs. W. Blaine (Mary Belle) Emerson of Tallahassee, FL, and Mrs. Charles L. (Gayle) Warner, US Air Force Base, Abilene, TX; two brothers, Robert R. Goss and Harley E. Goss of Franklin.
Services will be at 2 pm Friday at First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Roger F. Naftzger officiating. Interment will be in Franklin Cemetery.
Franklin News-Herald, Tuesday, Aug 16 1960:
Charles H. Goss, 71, of 1244 Otter Street, died at 8:40 pm Sunday in Cleveland Clinic Hospital, where he had been 3 weeks to have surgery for cancer, following failing health for 18 months. He was born in Siverly, now Tenth Ward of Oil City, on May 21, 1889, son of Edgar S. and Bella Stevens Goss.
He had only eight years of formal education in Oil City schools. He went to work as a boy at his father's restaurant, then as a newsboy. At the age of 18 he was an oil well driller, and put down several of the wells on Kelly's Flats. He built drilling rigs and improved methods of recovering oil by his invention of an electric heater that could be put in shallow wells. His intensive desire for industry of all kinds put him into Franklin Steel Works where he was in charge of cutting rails, to Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., where he worked in the stockroom, to Foco Oil Co in the early 1920s, where he was hired to install a batch still at the refinery, then remained as operator of the still and foreman of the pipe-fitting crew. In 1923 the refinery was sold to L. Sonneborn Sons Inc, and he was made superintendent, serving until the death of carl Alsberg in 1950, when he was appointed plant manager. He was a member of Myrtle Lodge, Venango Lodge of Perfection, Franklin Lodge BPO Elks, Franklin Club, and First Presbyterian Church.
On May 22, 1913, in the Franklin Lutheran Church, he married Mary Lavina Yingling, who survives, with a son, Charles E. Goss of Franklin; two daughters, Mrs. W. Blaine (Mary Belle) Emerson of Tallahassee, FL, and Mrs. Charles L. (Gayle) Warner, US Air Force Base, Abilene, TX; two brothers, Robert R. Goss and Harley E. Goss of Franklin.
Services will be at 2 pm Friday at First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Roger F. Naftzger officiating. Interment will be in Franklin Cemetery.
Charles H. Goss, 71, of 1244 Otter Street, died at 8:40 pm Sunday in Cleveland Clinic Hospital, where he had been 3 weeks to have surgery for cancer, following failing health for 18 months. He was born in Siverly, now Tenth Ward of Oil City, on May 21, 1889, son of Edgar S. and Bella Stevens Goss.
He had only eight years of formal education in Oil City schools. He went to work as a boy at his father's restaurant, then as a newsboy. At the age of 18 he was an oil well driller, and put down several of the wells on Kelly's Flats. He built drilling rigs and improved methods of recovering oil by his invention of an electric heater that could be put in shallow wells. His intensive desire for industry of all kinds put him into Franklin Steel Works where he was in charge of cutting rails, to Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., where he worked in the stockroom, to Foco Oil Co in the early 1920s, where he was hired to install a batch still at the refinery, then remained as operator of the still and foreman of the pipe-fitting crew. In 1923 the refinery was sold to L. Sonneborn Sons Inc, and he was made superintendent, serving until the death of carl Alsberg in 1950, when he was appointed plant manager. He was a member of Myrtle Lodge, Venango Lodge of Perfection, Franklin Lodge BPO Elks, Franklin Club, and First Presbyterian Church.
On May 22, 1913, in the Franklin Lutheran Church, he married Mary Lavina Yingling, who survives, with a son, Charles E. Goss of Franklin; two daughters, Mrs. W. Blaine (Mary Belle) Emerson of Tallahassee, FL, and Mrs. Charles L. (Gayle) Warner, US Air Force Base, Abilene, TX; two brothers, Robert R. Goss and Harley E. Goss of Franklin.
Services will be at 2 pm Friday at First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Roger F. Naftzger officiating. Interment will be in Franklin Cemetery.
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