Goodroad, age 94, of Watertown, SD, passed away on Monday, July 18, 2016 in her home. Funeral services will be at 11:00 a.m., on Thursday, July 21, 2016 at the First Baptist Church with Reverend Bob Weiss officiating. Music will be furnished by Reverend Bob and Beth Weiss accompanied by Eloise Falk.

Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m., with a time of sharing at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Wight & Comes Funeral Chapel in Watertown. Visitation will continue on Thursday for one hour prior to the service at the church.

Interment will be in Mount Hope Cemetery, Watertown, SD.

Pallbearers will be Clarice's grandsons.

Honorary Pallbearers will be all her grandchildren and the residents at 200 Maple Place.

Clarice Gunda Goodroad was born to Clarence O. and Gunda A. (Grandburg) Amerson on January 22, 1922 in Lake Norden, South Dakota. She grew up in Hamlin County and attended school through the eighth grade at Plainview grade school in Deuel County.

She married Glenn L. Goodroad on October 26, 1940 in Watertown. The couple worked in Defense Plants in Santa Monica, CA from 1941-1944. Clarice and Glenn moved to Watertown in 1945, and Clarice worked in the kitchen for the Watertown School District and then worked in housekeeping at Jenkins Living Center.

Clarice was a member of First Baptist Church and Elizabeth Circle. She enjoyed her family, jigsaw and crossword puzzles, gardening, writing poetry, listening to county music, and volunteering at Jenkins.

Clarice is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Mona and Gary Lindgren of Watertown, SD, Joanne and Reggie Hoffman of Algona, IA, and Nancy Jorgenson of Las Vegas, NV; her son and daughter-in-law, Steven and Amy Goodroad of Las Vegas, NV; her siblings, Elaine Lewis and Mavis and her husband, Robert Voight of Minneapolis, MN, Jean and her husband, Carl Brookins of St. Paul, MN, and Richard Amerson of California; her grandchildren; her great grandchildren; and great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Glenn on August 3, 2001; her son, Gayle; her grandsons, Chad and Jason Hoffman; one sister, Marie Hawley; and her brother, Robert Amerson.

- Wight & Comes Funeral Chapel