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Lila Joan "Jo" (????) (Ross) Goth
 Jun 26, 1930 - Feb 13, 2021
Posted by: Jo Aguirre

BARTLESVILLE EXAMINER-ENTERPRISE
BARTLESVILLE, WASHINGTON CO, OK
(permission granted)

Born in the middle of wheat harvest in Mullinville, Kansas, Jo graduated from Mullinville High in 1948, but met Donald Lee Ross while attending high school for a year in Rifle, CO. She then attended business college and became a legal secretary. She married Don in 1952 and continued working as a secretary periodically while raising their three children. The Rosses lived in Houston, San Antonio, and Corpus Christi, Texas, moving to Bartlesville after Don retired from Air Force and Army civil service. Several years after Don's death in 1998, Jo met Perry (Pat) Goth and they were married for 11 years until his death in 2012. They attended First United Methodist Church in Bartlesville and eventually moved to Green Country Village. The Goth family embraced her as their own, and she was forever grateful for their love and care. Jo, known as a feisty, independent firecracker to friends, moved to Sequim, WA, in 2014 to be close to her daughter. She had a great love of the arts (the theater and music of all kinds), good food (especially ice cream, Mexican, biscuits and gravy), and anything chocolate -- known as "Vitamin C" to her family. She was conservative in politics but liberal in just about everything else, particularly religion and women's rights. Before macular degeneration took most of her eyesight, she was a voracious reader with an insatiable curiosity about the world and all that's in it. Jo volunteered for arts groups and hospice while in Oklahoma. Nicknamed the "Queen Bee" by her daughter, she enjoyed girls' weekends with the "Noland Girls," (some of her maternal relatives.) She loved road trips and cruises, "party" bridge, jokes, shopping (both stores and catalogs), sailing, and looking at clouds. Although Jo wasn't afraid to be by herself, she believed everyone had a story to tell, and would be the first to sit with the newcomer or stranger to hear theirs.

Jo was predeceased by husbands Don Ross and Pat Goth, son Mark Allen Ross and step-son Mike Goth.

She is survived by her beloved sister and brother-in-law, Jean and David Woolery; daughter Cyndi (Michael Witkin), son Steve (Julie); step-children Tom Goth (Kate O'Donnell), Joan Goth (Dan Pickett); two grandchildren Emile Vogas (Joseph), Allen (Seth Majnoon); six step-grandchildren, Allen Witkin, Katya Anderson, Brendan, Meghan and Mike Goth, and Rene Brown; one great-grandchild Jamie Vogas; many cherished cousins and nieces.

A celebration of life is being planned later in Bartlesville, where her ashes will be interred next to Don and Mark.

Memorial donations can be made to NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness.)   


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