05/21/2007

Notification of Death - Elden A. Good

May 19, 2007

OFDA received word this afternoon that Elden A. Good age, 93, died Saturday, May 19, 2007. He came to Cincinnati in 1933 from Lewisburg, OH, to pursue a career as a mortician. After working for several years at the Charles A. Smith and Sons Funeral Home, in Newport, KY and serving his apprenticeship, he attended the Cincinnati College of Embalming, graduating in 1940. Elden has been a licensed funeral director and embalmer since 1941.

Before attending Mortuary School, Elden and Mary Elizabeth Scott were married on September 7, 1939. He served in the Army during WWII. Upon his return to Cincinnati, he worked at the W. D. Jacocks Funeral Home, in Walnut Hills, where he had served his Ohio apprenticeship. In 1942 he went into a partnership and purchased the Dethlefs Funeral Home in Avondale. Elden and Elizabeth had two sons, William R. Good, who married Rebecca Southwick Good, and now own and operate the Southwick-Good and Fortkamp Funeral Chapel in Columbus, and Donald S. Good.

In 1952 Elden returned to the W. D. Jacocks Funeral Home, which was established in 1871, and became the sole proprietor of that firm. During the mid-1960's, Elden purchased property at the corner of Erie Ave. and Zumstein Ave., one block west of Hyde Park Square. In December of 1968, after renovation, he moved the Jacocks-Good Funeral Home to the current location. The firm incorporated in 1978 under the name of Elden A. Good Funeral Home, Inc.

Donald and his wife Beverly Potts Good, who were married in 1975, joined Elden and Elizabeth in ownership of the business. Donald and Beverly acquired the business in the 1990's. Having both grown up in funeral service, they are intimately aware of the responsibilities of the profession and the sacred trust that families place in them.

Elden was a devoted husband of the late Mary Elizabeth Scott Good, father of William R. (Becky) Good and Donald S. (Beverly) Good, grandfather of Barbara Jean (Jonathan) Fortkamp and Elizabeth Ann (Scott) Pritchard, great-grandfather of Scott William Pritchard Jr., William Carver Fortkamp, Sydney Elizabeth Pritchard and Gabriella Elizabeth Fortkamp.

Friends may call at the Elden A. Good Funeral Home, 2620 Erie Avenue, Cincinnati, Monday 3:00 - 7:00 PM. Funeral Service will be held at Knox Presbyterian Church, Michigan and Observatory Avenues, Hyde Park, Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 11:00 AM. Burial at Rest Haven Memorial Park.

Memorials may be directed to the charity of your choice.