Nick Goodwin
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Nick Goodwin
Former Sitkan Nick Goodwin, of Montara, Calif., died on August 26 while riding his mountain bike on Montara Mountain. He was 59.
Nick was born on June 29, 1957, in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Charles Bennett Goodwin and Shirley Van Blaricom Goodwin. He moved to Berkeley, Calif., in 1974 and attended Berkeley High school.
In 1989 he moved to Anchorage where he worked in restaurants and fisheries. In 1991 he earned his GED and enrolled at Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, graduating summa cum laude in December 1995 with a degree in natural resource management and Development.
He married Caroline Davis of Sitka in 1996, and the couple had their first child, Naomi Louise, in 1997. From 1996 to 1999 the Goodwins lived at Little Port Walter, on south Baranof Island, where Nick worked year-round as a fish culturist.
When Caroline was awarded a fellowship to attend Stanford in 1999, the family moved to East Palo Alto and Nick returned to work for the family plumbing business in San Francisco. Their second daughter, Josephine, was born with extensive internal anomalies and died at 11 months at Packard Hospital in April 2002. Her grave is in Sitka next to her maternal great-grandparents Les and Caroline Yaw.
The Goodwins moved to the San Mateo coast in 2001, and in 2004 they welcomed their third daughter, Isabel Neva (Izzy).
Nick was a devoted father, husband, brother and friend, and a longtime, sober member of Alcoholics Anonymous. He celebrated 25 years of continuous sobriety on February 15, 2016.
He was an avid mountain biker and loved living on the coast. He was also an integral part of the family business, and many people will miss his sense of humor, his quirky and genuine way of being in the world, and his extraordinary dedication to work, family and sports, his family said.
He is survived by his wife Caroline Goodwin; daughters Naomi and Izzy Goodwin; sister Beth Goodwin of Anchorage and brother Chris (Nina) Goodwin of Half Moon Bay, Calif.; nieces Megan Goodwin-Germano (Matt) of Castro Valley, Calif., and Shannon Bodenner (Jared) of Chugiak, Alaska; nephews Chris Michael and Jesse Goodwin of Half Moon Bay, Daniel Jones of Anchorage, and Ben Goodwin of Santa Cruz, Calif.
A grand-nephew, Patrick Liam Goodwin-Germano of Castro Valley; sister-in-law Beth B. Goodwin of Pacific Grove, Calif.; father-and mother-in-law William and Nancy Yaw Davis of Sitka; brother-in-law Scott Davis of Seattle; brother- and sister-in-law Roblin Davis and Elizabeth Pisel-Davis of Juneau; niece Maya Pisel of Milwaukee, Wis.; and nephews Forrest and Arlo Davis of Juneau also survive.
He was preceded in death by his father Charles Bennett Goodwin and his mother Shirley Lawson, his oldest brother CB Goodwin, and his daughter Josephine Neville Goodwin.
A celebration of Nick’s life will be held at some point in Sitka, for his extended Alaskan family.
His death has been officially determined a result of “blunt injury to the neck” from a fall.
In lieu of flowers, the family is asking for donations to Naomi’s and Izzy’s college fund via https://www.youcaring.com/caroline-goodwin-and-her-daughters-637529
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February 2005
Photo caption: S&S General Contractors crew bury conduit along Sawmill Creek Road as part of a sewer line project. They’ve been working only at night, using portable lights to direct traffic. Sitkans living between Shotgun Alley and Indian River Road are asked not to use drains or toilets Thursday as pump stations will be turned off.
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