Judith Goodhart

Nov. 25, 1946 - Oct. 31, 2024

Judith “Judy” Goodhart was born on November 25, 1946 in Ann Arbor Michigan to Dr. Max and Kathleen Parrott and died on October 31, 2024. Her family moved to Portland, Oregon when she was three years old. She grew up in Portland’s west hills and attended grade school at a small school house across the road from their home. She attended high school at St. Helens Hall and college in Missouri. She spent a year traveling with Ice Capades as the show secretary and then worked as a bookkeeper for the Portland Eye Group until she married Forest Goodhart in August of 1976. He worked in construction and they moved from place to place for several years including Spokane, Washington, Missoula, Montana, Beaverton, Oregon, Anchorage, Alaska, Sacramento, California, and finally to Santa Cruz, California where she said she was not moving again and bought a house where they lived until her passing. She suffered from scoliosis as a a teen ager and was the first in Portland, Oregon to undergo the Harrington rod procedure. The initial fusions failed and the procedure had to be redone with her spending a year in a body cast. This was the beginning of a lifelong struggle with her back that included seven separate back surgeries with her ending up with the same scoliosis that she started with. She was a trouper and insisted on joining her husband on many trips and events in their Pantera sports car even when she needed assistance getting in and out of the car. She was loved by many people and will be sorely missed by those left behind. She is survived by her husband of 48 years and several cousins.