Nancy Virginia Gooch, 76

HARBESON - Nancy Virginia Gooch, died Tuesday, July 7, 2009, in Harbor Health Care after a brief illness. She was 76. She was born in Lewes Dec. 30, 1932, to the late Ernest and Letha Daisey Gooch. Nancy grew up in Lewes and attended Lewes Public Schools and Richard Allen in Georgetown. She spent her entire life in Lewes. She worked more than 30 years as a nurse's aide at Beebe Hospital, then as a quality control supervisor at the Doxsee Clam factory in Lewes. Nancy was a member of Lewes Presbyterian Church. Ms. Gooch is survived by five sons, Michael E. and Denise Gooch of Milford, Ronald A. and Dawn of Milton, Wayne R. and Mark T. Gooch of Harbeson, Eric L. and Gerry of Milton; two daughters, Linda Jo and Gerald Echols of Newport News, Va., and Nancy J. and William Collick Sr. of Milton; 12 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; four brothers, Ernest Gooch Jr. of Lewes, James and Louise Gooch of Lewes, Robert Gooch of Lewes, and Ernest Allen Jr. of Milford; and three sisters, Dorothy Midge and Verdell Johnson or Atmore Ala., Berdie M. Banks of Lewes, and Agnes Allen of Lincoln. Services will be 1 p.m. Saturday, July 11 at the Eagle's Nest Church, 26633 Zion Church Rd., Milton. Friends may call at the church two hours prior. Arrangements by Miller Funeral Services.