PIONEER OF THE YEAR (2014)

Pioneers of the Year for 2014 are the Sasse and Goodman families. Beatrice (Bea) Sasse and Leo Goodman married 25 December 1927 in Waldport, Oregon.

Bea's father Henry Sasse was born 1873 in Wisconsin. He moved with his parents from Wisconsin to Minnesota, then South Dakota, then back to Minnesota. in 1894 he was working in the newspaper business. Henry married Sarah Goetz in 1896. The family, including 3 daughters, moved to Idaho in 1905. Mr. & Mrs. Sasse moved again in 1926 with their 8 children to Waldport, Oregon, operating the Waldport Tribune newspaper, which he sold in 1936. He died at his home 19 October 1941 and was buried at the Tidewater Cemetery. His wife Sarah died 11 March 1958.

Leo Goodman's grandfather Newton Jasper Goodman was born in 1841 in Tennesee, and moved to Missouri in 1843. Newton married Rhoda Ann Ward in 1861 in Illinois. They went to Oklahoma, along with their 5 children, to teach school for the new homesteaders. In 1888 the family, along with the Grouts, Moffits, McMillins & Counsils rented a railroad box-car and traveled to Oregon, settling on the Alsea River in the Tidewater area. Newton died 1921, Rhoda 1915, and are both buried at the Alsea, Oregon cemetery. Their son Alonzo married Rosa Thissel about 1890, raising Arthur, Chester, Myrtle, Tressa, Leo, Vera, Verne, Eva & Gerald in the Tidewater and Waldport area.

Leo & Bea Sasse Goodman raised children Thomas, David, and Joan. Leo, born 1897 in Tidewater, died in a boating accident on the Yaquina Bay 30 May 1965. Bea Sasse Goodman, born 1900 in Minnesota, was a grade school teacher and lived 70 years in Waldport. She died 23 April 1993. Both are buried at the Tidewater Cemetery. CRN