Evening star., 1929-12-20
RITES IMPRESSIVE
FOR MRS. GOODE
Services at Continental Hall
Followed by Removal of
Body to Mobile.

Impressive funeral services for Mrs.
Rhett Goode, national president Of the
Children of the American Revolution
and president of the National Ofhcers'
Club of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, Who died at the Club OF
the Colonial Danes. 1900 New Hamp-
shire avenue, yesterday afternoon, were
arranged in Memorial Continental Hall
this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. DR..
Joseph r. Sizoo, pastor of the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church, had
charge of the services, assisted by
Bishop James E. Freeman of the Epis-
copal Diocese of Washington and Rev.
DR.. z. Barney Phillips. rector Of the
Church of the Epiphany. The body
Is being taken to Mobile, Ala, Mrs.
Goodies former home. for burial be-
side the body of her husband, DR..
Goode.
The body rested in state from 1
o'clock this afternoon until the time
Of the services
The services in Memorial Continental
Hall were arranged in accordance with
Mrs. Goodies last expressed wish. She
was informed several days before her
death that her desire would be carried
out.
Employees Pallbearers.
Also, in accordance with q wish, the
pallbearers were men employees of the
D. A. r. buildings. Music was fur
nished at the service by a quartet from
the Interstate Commerce Commission
Chorus.
With Mrs. Goode when she died were
her daughter, Mrs. Randolph Coyle,
wife of Maj. Coyle, U. S. M. c., who
had hastened to this city from Haiti
and her sister, Mrs. Robert TomlinSon
of Wilmington, Del. Mrs. Lowell Fletcher
Hobart, president general of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution, had
been a constant companion to Mrs
Goode through her illness.
Coming to this city some years ago
from Mobile, Mrs. Goode had become
widely known here. She had held
many important positions with the
having been several times q national Of
fioer of that body before she was elected
president of the Children of the Ameri-
can Revolution.
She had been active In the D. A. r
for % years, first becoming affiliated
with the Mobile, Ala, Chapter. She
was formerly State regent of the Ala
bama D. A. r. and was twice vice presi-
dent general of the National Society, D.
A. r., an unusual honor, having filled
that Office both in 1913 and again In
1917. She also was past chaplain gen.
eral of the National Society, D. A. R..
and had several times served ss chair
man of the program committee for Its
nual congresses here.
Mrs. Goode also had the distinction
of having served on the committee
which had charge of arrangements for
building Memorial Continental Hall 25
years ago and recently the committee
in charge Of building Constitution Hall
Active in Other Work.
In addition to her Affiliations with
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton Mrs. Goode was active in addi-
tional patriotic and other organizations.
These included the Colonial Danes, the
Mary Washington Memorial Association,
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs, OF which she was a former State
president, and the American Red Cross.
She had the distinction of being the
first all-time volunteer worker in the
South. She organized woman's COM
mittee to assist in recruiting the first