Doris Goble

Clemmons, NC   ---    Doris Anne Cash Goble, 84, of Winston-Salem, NC passed away on Wednesday, August 19th at Brookstone Terrace.

She was born March 22nd, 1936 in Winston-Salem in Forsyth County to John Henry and Annie Cash. She was the last surviving and youngest of five siblings, preceded in death by Mary Louise Jones, Marvin, Thomas, and John Franklin Cash.

Doris Anne graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Wake Forest University in 1959. During her school years, she worked at a local North Carolina company, Blair Publishing, as well as Seapark Music Company.  While the pianist at Griffith Baptist Church, she met and married the Reverend Harry Anderson Goble in 1957.  In 1960, she traveled to Guam with her husband as part of the Southern Baptist Foreign Missionary Board to assist in establishing three churches serving the local population as well as military troops based there.

Returning to the US in 1967, the Gobles settled in Winston-Salem after some time spent living in the Carrboro and Chapel Hill area. Doris Anne worked for many years giving piano lessons to children at their home on Maplewood Ave in Winston-Salem. Later, she spent over a decade as a radiological transcriptionist at Baptist Hospital in the eighties and nineties.

Doris Anne was a long-standing member of Ardmore Baptist Church and was devoted to her immediate and extended family, including numerous nephews and nieces and their families. She was also an enthusiastic musician and writer, having composed several memoirs about her life.

Surviving are her two sons, Todd Anthony Goble of Greensboro and Kent Goble and wife Cynthia of Maryland; and a granddaughter, Quentin Goble.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, services will not be held at this time.  Plans will be announced at some time in the future once the pandemic is over.  In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to any food bank of the giver’s choice to assist in feeding people during these times of need.

Online condolences may be made at www.hayworth-miller.com