Obituary of Dorothy F. Goins

Dorothy Forte Goins was born on July 24, 1924 in Pittsboro, North Carolina. At the age of 2 she was adopted by Dr. Allan Forte and Ola Mae Forte who was the sister of her birth mother Ruth Mcintyre Christian. She attended public school in Chicago and Oklahoma City and private school in Asheville, NC. She graduated from Allen Methodist High School in 1940. She graduated from Bennett College in 1944 with a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts. In 1946 she married Leo Kimbrough and they had one daughter, Delano. Their marriage was dissolved in 19SO. She met John M. Goins in New York and they married in 1951. They resided in Harlem and Queens before finally settling down in Lakeview, NY in 1959. They had one son, John Jr. She worked at Queens College as a Registrar's Assistant from 1956 to 1963 before resigning after the birth of her son John. She returned to work in 1969 for the Malverne School District as a Senior Account Clerk until her retirement in 1986. After her retirement she spent several years volunteering for the Literacy Volunteers of America in various Nassau County libraries. John, her beloved husband of 58 years, pre-deceased her in 2009. She moved to Brentwood the following year to be near her son John, Jr. During her lifetime Dorothy took great pride in her children and grandsons, was a loyal Mets and Knicks fan and an avid reader. She peacefully went home to be with the Lord on August 24, 2014. She is predeceased by her sisters, Pauline Littlejohn and Charlotte Turner and survived by a brother Allan Forte and sister Gloria Henderson. She leaves to cherish her memory her daughter Delano Kimbrough of Bloomfield, NJ, her son John Goins, Jr. of Brentwood, NY, her daughter-in-law Melissa Goins, her grandsons, Connor Kimbrough of Bloomfield, NJ and John Goins Ill and numerous relatives and friends.