William Franklin "Frank" Goen

Memorial Service for William Franklin "Frank" Goen will be held at 3:00 pm on Thursday, December 19, 2024, at Brownfield Funeral Home, with Rev. Chris Seaton officiating.

Frank departed from us to his heavenly home to be with his Savior on December 15, 2024. He was born in Lubbock, Texas, on January 30, 1945. Frank grew up in Floydada, riding on scooters with his friend Speedy Swafford while they hunted with their BB guns. 

As an adult, he was a competent and successful business owner. As a father, he loved racing dirt bikes with his sons Scott and Darin with a passion, instilling in them his lifelong love of all things motorcycles and cars. His boys remember their dad throwing the football with them in the front yard, and chasing jackrabbits on their dirt bikes in their dirt caliche pit. He met and fell madly in love with Sharon, building a beautiful marriage that lasted nearly 40 years, and eventually became a grandfather.

Frank loved being outside, always working on a project and cultivating a beautiful lawn for his wife and grandkids to thrive in. He did everything, from watching every cartoon on TV to wrangling stray cats and setting up waterslides. Frank had a servant's heart, showing his love through all kinds of service and generosity. If any project needed to be done, he would head it up and would teach you to do it better than you'd done before. His sense of humor was infectiously dry, and his contrasting goofiness and warmth brought us all joy.

In our grief, we have joy because Christ not only won the victory in Frank's heart but has also triumphed over all sickness and death on the cross and brought Frank everlasting life. We rejoice in hope, confident in Christ that we will be reunited with him in the light of God's presence.

Frank is preceded in death by his parents, Elton and Oleta Goen of Floydada, Texas, his father and mother-in-law, Olen and Laura Little of Brownfield, Texas, and his son, Randy Wood of Lubbock, Texas. 

He leaves behind, for a short time, his precious wife Sharon Goen, sons Scott Goen of San Antonio, Texas, and Darin Goen of Boerne, Texas, daughter Penny and son-in-law Nathan Chandler of Brownfield, Texas, brother Bob and sister-in-law Joni Goen of McKinney, Texas, and brother and sister Gary and Barbara Metcalf of Lubbock, Texas, and his grandchildren Lyndi, Natalie, Lauren, Joseph, Gracie, Woody, Katharine, Mason, Allie, and Abby. 

Frank is also survived by niece Tamie and husband Rick Hayes, niece Lisa and husband Jimmy Marta, niece Shanna and husband Mark Teusch, niece Kerry and husband Lonnie Covington, niece Georgette and husband Tony Wright, and great-nieces Madison Kinder and Kennedy Van Voris and husband David.