Mattie Goodell

MATTIE MAXINE GOODELL
Mattie Maxine Green was a Jewel or Sweetheart in the Desert, depending on the actions taken by her every day of her 97 years. She was a wife to three different men with last names of Rideout, Hagest, and Goodell and was just Aunt Max to many of her nephews and nieces and even Mom to her family friends who were raised in Albuquerque. Maxine was a member of the NM Hospital Auxillary and served for many years in those area hospitals.

Maxine, 97, joined the Lord, Wednesday, December 21, 2011, in Roswell at her last residence at La Villa following a stroke on Saturday night or Sunday morning of the second weekend before Christmas 2011. She was born in Tyler, Texas on November 14, 1914 and eventually became one of eight children to Barney Elbert Green, Sr. and Lucille Rushing Green.

She moved with her family to a New Mexico farm in East Grand Plains in 1924 and that family farmed there until 1937 when they moved to north of Artesia. The family farmed and owned the first dairy and creamery in the area. Maxine graduated from Roswell High School in 1931 and went to UNM for one year.

About 1938, she married Scratchy Rideout, who owned an automotive repair store in Artesia. He died when most of the nieces and nephews of Maxines sisters and brothers were still quite young. He died in a small airplane near Hope, NM while hunting coyotes from the air.

Around 1957, she married Charlie M. Hagest and they lived in Las Vegas and Albuquerque and Charlie became the Owner and Officer of Rio Grande Title Company in the largest city in the state. Charlie died on April 18, 1982 at the Anna Kaseman Hospital in Albuquerque and is buried in Fairview Park Crematory. Maxine is an Honorary Life Member of the 500th Bomb Squadron Association from this marriage and Charlie was one of the Rough Raiders.


On December 19, 1983, she married Lawrence Goodell at Ruidoso, NM and they live on North Kentucky in Roswell until Larry died and was buried at South Park Cemetery in 2004. Larry was owner of an Insurance business and a NM State Representative from Roswell.

Maxine was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers Donald at birth and Harold, and her sisters Christine Tomlinson, Tommie Pirtle, and Billie Mays. Her living sister is Ada Joesphine Jodie Keyes of Ruidoso, and her living brother of Hagerman is Barney E. Green, Jr. Her nieces nephews, and family friends of her Charlie, and Lawrences son along with their current spouses Max Polly Tomlinson, Conrad Jr. Tywilla Keyes, Nancy Pete Pauley, Barney Mary Mays, Ginger Dick Lord, Harold Gambra Green, Pam Angel, Gay Ken Hirst Maria and deceased husband Jorge de la Torre and Larry Jr. Lenore Goodell are still alive and Maxine called each one of them throughout her quite active life at Villa del Rey for over 7 years and even while living at La Villa during the past 6 months.

A memorial service will be held at LaGrone Funeral Chapel for family at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, December 28, 2011, followed by a graveside service at South Park Cemetery, on the same day before Maxine will be buried with her second husband, Charlie, at the NM National Cemetery in Santa Fe at some later date.

Memorial contributions may be made to American Cancer Society, Vista Care Hospice, or First Methodist Church or to a favorite charity or university foundation.

If friends wish to give condolences online they may do so at www.lagronefuneralchapels.com

Cremation Services are being arranged by La Grone Funeral Home.

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