Lubbock Evening Journal (Lubbock, Texas) - June 10, 1983
 

OBITUARY

CLODFELTER
BEATRICE GOYER. Mrs. Clodfelter died at her home in Irving, Texas. She was an exemplary teacher of sixty years, never missing a day of school. She taught in Irving and Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISDs. Her first grade students were greatly influenced by her teaching and as a model for them to emulate. Mrs. Clodfelter taught with the philosophy that she was responsible for not only what they learned (her students) but what they became. Her calling to teach began in Crebbs, Oklahoma where she taught first grade and coached the boy's basketball team. She met her future husband, Clifford R. Clodfelter Sr. in Avant, Oklahoma where he was a young coach fresh from participating in the Olympic Games and she a first grade teacher. When Mr. Clodfelter became superintendent of schools in Dewey-Bartlesville, Oklahoma she continued teaching first grade there. Many honors were bestowed on Mrs. Clodfelter for her teaching and her community service. Mr. Clodfelter preceded her in death.  Mrs. Clodfelter came from a pioneer family. Her father, James Goyer, homesteaded near Jones, Oklahoma where she was born January 19, 1909. Mrs. Clodfelter was a member of the South MacArthur Church of Christ. She is survived by a son, Dr. C. Ronald Clodfelter, Pagosa Springs, Colorado; a daughter, Dr. Cherie Clodfelter, Irving, and dearest of friends, Ruben and Sandy Franco, Irving. Gifts to celebrate Mrs. Clodfelter's life may be made to the Excellence in Education Forum, Department of Education, University of Dallas. Mrs. Clodfelter gave her extensive library of Children's books to the Children's Library, UD on her retirement from the Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD. "You are responsible for one thing when you teach when your students leave you they want to know more." Because of Beatrice Goyer Clodfelter her students have wanted to know more. Funeral services will be held in the Chapel of the SOUTH MACARTHUR CHURCH OF CHRIST (1301 South MacArthur Blvd, Irving, Texas) at 2:00 P.M., Monday, June 16, 1997. The pallbearers will be Ruben Franco, Victor Franco, Nick Franco, Benny Franco, Tim Lewis and Joel Easter. Private interment will be at Restland.
RESTLAND FUNERAL HOME
located on Greenville Avenue
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Services are set today in Irving for teacher Beatrice Clodfelter
The Dallas Morning News) - June 16, 1997

Services for Beatrice Goyer Clodfelter, a longtime first-grade teacher in the Irving and Carrollton-Farmers Branch school districts, will be at 2 p.m. Monday at South MacArthur Church of Christ in Irving. Burial will be private.

Mrs. Clodfelter, 88, died Saturday at her daughter's Irving home, where she was staying.

Mrs. Clodfelter taught in Irving from the late 1950s to the early 1970s at Britain and Lee elementary schools. She then was recruited by the Carrollton-Farmers Branch school district for her success with reading instruction, said her daughter, Dr. Cherie Clodfelter.

In that district, she taught first at Stark Elementary, then at Blanton Elementary until she retired in the late 1980s.

"She never missed school," Dr. Clodfelter said. "She thought of teaching as a calling. " Mrs. Clodfelter came to Irving from Oklahoma with her husband, Clifford R. Clodfelter Sr. Mr. Clodfelter, a former Irving teacher and principal, died in 1988.

Mrs. Clodfelter began teaching in Oklahoma, where she also coached boys' basketball for a short time.

Her daughter, a professor at the University of Dallas in Irving, said she still lives by the advice her mother gave her when she decided to teach.

"She told me that you're responsible for one thing and one thing only. When the students leave you, they should want to know more.

You should whet their appetite," Dr. Clodfelter said. "That's what she did. She provoked her students to want to learn. " In addition to her daughter, Mrs. Clodfelter is survived by a son, Dr. Ron Clodfelter of Pagosa Springs, Colo.

CLODFELTER
BEATRICE ANN
CLIFFORD R.

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