Mary Griffith Goldsworthy passed away on September 28th at the Pershing County Nursing Home.
She was born in Rule Arkansas in 1925 and lived on her family’s small farm nearby until leaving for school at the School of the Ozarks.
She later graduated from Drury College and worked in Springfield Missouri until 1957, when she came west to take a teaching job in Lovelock Nevada, where she met and married Myron.
Nevada native Myron Goldsworthy passed away April 7th, Myron was born in 1924 in Mason Nevada, and spent his childhood in Silver City and Yerington as his father James worked in various northern Nevada mines.
He went to high school in Reno, joined the Navy in World War II and served as executive officer of the battle damage repair ship USS Phaon.
After release from service, he went to the University of Nevada, Reno, where he graduated with an agricultural degree, worked and traveled throughout Nevada, and lived for a time in Lovelock.
In 1962 they moved to Yerington, where Myron mined with his father at Pine Grove and worked as an independent contractor, leveling farmland and hauling hay, while Mary taught school at Lyon County High School.
In 1969 they returned to Lovelock and Myron took the position of manager of the Pershing County Water Conservation District, overseeing the irrigation system of Lovelock Valley until his retirement, while Mary taught school and later served as the bookkeeper for many years at Valley Equipment Company.
In retirement Myron served on the Pershing County Soil Conservation board, the Desert Research Institute board, and along with Mary helped with the local food bank and the Methodist Church, and as volunteers at the Marzen House Museum. Myron and Mary traveled extensively, seeing 48 states.
They were always ready to spend time with family and friends, and were regular participants at community gatherings in Lovelock.
They are survived by their son Jeffrey and his wife Kathy, son James and his partner Darlene Vonsild, grandchildren Michael and wife Lyssa, Steven, Erik and wife Joy, and Kendall, and great-grandson Alex, Mary’s sisters Janet Clower and Carol Stuart, and many loving nieces and nephews.
Services will be announced. In lieu of flowers, please contribute to Grace St. Francis Community Church in Lovelock.
