W. G. "Bill" Goyne (Plainview)

W.G. 'Bill' Goyne May 10, 1918-May 25, 2007 A memorial service for W.G. "Bill" Goyne, 89, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 6, 2007, at Kornerstone Funeral Home in Plainview with the Rev. Don Robertson, pastor of College Heights Baptist Church, officiating. Mr. Goyne died May 25, 2007, at the Clyde W. Cosper Texas State Veterans Home in Bonham where he resided for the past 13 months. He was born May 10, 1918, in Walnut Springs in Bosque County to the late Thomas Dee and Sarah Susana Goyne of Fieldton. After graduating from high school, he married Velma Jackson of Olton. They moved to California where he learned his trade as a welder in the shipyards. As World War II began to intensify, he was drafted in the U.S. Navy and was sent overseas. Toward the end of the war, his ship was destroyed in Okinawa and he was given his passage home. He received his discharge in 1945. On his return to Plainview, he went to work as a welder and built his first water well drilling rig. He started Goyne Drilling Company and for almost 50 years was responsible for bringing irrigation wells and domestic water wells to many farms and rural homes within a 100-mile radius of Plainview. In 1973, Bill and Velma moved to the Edmonson community west of Plainview where he continued his business until his retirement at the age of 75. In 1991, his loving and devoted wife of 53 years passed away from cancer and six months later his son, Jerry Goyne, 46, passed away from leukemia. Survivors include his wife, Evelyn Falkner Goyne; her daughter, Beverly Sandlin of Garland and her son, Derrell of Minneapolis, Minn.; his two daughters, Judy Schlichting and Vicki Fontaine of Dallas; three grandchildren, Kari Garratt, Victor DeMarco and Greg Goyne; and seven great-grandchildren; three brothers, Glen, Elbert and Thomas D. 'Bub'; and two sisters, Wauneta Cole and Joyce Halford. His parents; three brothers, Harry, Snooks and Royce; and a sister, Nell Smith, are deceased. He was a wonderful husband and father, a humble man of integrity, honesty, generosity and loving kindness who brought the Texas Panhandle the gift of water and thus, brought the means for a prosperous way of life for more than five generations. He will always be remembered and very definitely missed. Donations may be made to the American Cancer Society or to a favorite charity.