Mildred Golden of Bethany Dies; Rites This Saturday
Mildred Josephine Golden, 84, of Bethany died Wednesday, October 3, at the Morgan County ARH Hospital in West Liberty following a long illness. Miss Golden, an East Liverpool, Ohio native who came to Wolfe County in 1927, had been affiliated with the old Bethany Orphanage, now known as the Bethany Christian Mission Center, for more than 50 years. Miss Golden not only worked with orphans and other students at the facility but worked as a community nurse and midwife and served as postmaster at Bethany for 19 years, retiring in 1970. Rev. Walter Dean, director of the Bethany Mission Center, said that Miss Golden traveled the hills and hollows of Wolfe County by foot, horseback, and later by jeep to deliver 267 babies with out the help of a doctor. She also was noted for her writing and painting and her love for Christian outreach work in Sunday Schools and churches through out the county. According to Dean, Miss Golden was a graduate of Asbury College and later studied nursing for a period with the intention of becoming a foreign missionary. But, he said, she was told that because of her physical condition she would not be able to be either a nurse or a missionary. At Bethany, she served mankind in both capacities adminably in both fields, Dean commented.
Miss Golden had lived the last four or five years with a niece in Albany, Ga. but had returned to Bethany to live earlier this year. Only nieces and nephews survive.
Funeral services will be conducted at Bethany Church at 1 p.m. Saturday by Rev. E. W. Dean, Dr. William Arnett, and Rev. Delbert Howard. The body was brought to the church Thursday evening to lie in state until time of services. Burial will be in the Bethany Cemetery with Shackelford Funeral Home of Campton in charge of arrangements. [The Wolfe County News Friday Oct. 5, 1984. Submitted by Christi Scovel]

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