Goldie Maurice (Chambers) Ramsey

One of eight children, Goldie Maurice (Chambers) Ramsey was born to Abner & Virgie Chambers on November 28, 1912 in Cleburne, Texas. She died December 21, 2014 at the age of 102 in Grants Pass, Oregon.

When she was only a few months old, the Chambers family moved to Clovis, New Mexico where Goldie grew up and attended the first kindergarten ever offered by the First Presbyterian Church. Her parents next moved to a farm near Broadview, New Mexico. In the 1920s, Abner moved the family to San Bernardino, California where later Goldie graduated from high school. Her two oldest sisters were married and remained in New Mexico.

She married Wilber “Bill” Roland Ramsey on July 3, 1931 in Riverside, California, and they had five children (four boys and one girl). Once the children were all in school, Goldie worked as a medical clerk typist at Norton AFB in San Bernardino for 25 years.

Goldie was the longest living person of the family. As matriarch, she had eleven grandchildren, twenty great-grandchildren, thirteen great-great-grandchildren, twenty-three nieces and nephews, and many more extended relatives.

Goldie is survived by her son Earl Ramsey and wife Vi of Fontana, California, son Paul Ramsey and wife Karen of Merlin, Oregon, daughter Kathleen “Katie” Smith of Grants Pass, Oregon, and son Thomas Ramsey and wife Judy of Rancho Cucamonga, California. Goldie had lived with Katie and her husband Bill for the past six years.

She was preceded in death by parents Abner & Virgie Chambers, husband Bill Ramsey, son Wilber Arnold Ramsey, son-in-law Bill Smith, sisters Mertie Wall, Bertie Rutherford, Gladys Millett, Lottie Long, Ruby Reyburn, Barbara Poore and brother Horace Chambers.

Services will be held in San Bernardino at Mark B. Shaw Mortuary. She will be interred at Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino next to her husband.

Hull & Hull Funeral Directors are in charge of local arrangements.