Dorothy Anderson Goodpaster
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2006
Dorothy Dulaney Anderson Goodpaster, 90, an Army wife who was a former Grey Lady volunteer, died of congestive heart failure
Nov. 29 at her home at the Knollwood Health Services Center in Washington.
Mrs. Goodpaster, who was known as Dossy among her friends and family, was born in Manila, where her father, an Army major
general, was stationed at the time. She grew up on Army posts across the country and attended Western High School in
Washington.
Over the years as the wife of an Army officer, Mrs. Goodpaster served as a hostess, Grey Lady and Red Cross volunteer. She
also was a Girl Scout leader, Sunday school teacher and past president and chairwoman of the memorial scholarship
committee of the Daughters of the United States Army.
She lived several times in Europe and visited Paris, Bangkok, Moscow and Bermuda.
Mrs. Goodpaster settled in Washington in the early 1980s.
Her husband of 65 years, Army Gen. Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, died in 2005.
Survivors include two daughters, Susan Dulaney Goodpaster Sullivan of Alexandria and Anne Morgan Goodpaster Batte of
Berwick, Nova Scotia; seven grandchildren; and a great-grandson.