More detail on this person: OCALA -- Tom
Goforth, deputy director of Emergency Management
and a key leader in guiding the county through
back-to-back hurricanes in 2004 and 2005, died
Friday of a heart attack at Munroe Regional
Medical Center.
Goforth was 62.
Described as a dedicated, hard working employee
with compassion to help people, Goforth had two
other careers before retiring to Marion County in
1996.
From 1968 to 1973, Goforth was a U.S. Army
helicopter pilot serving in Vietnam where he was
awarded the Vietnam Service Medal with four
Bronze Service Stars and Air Medal with seven Oak
Leaf clusters. He also flew in the Oklahoma Army
National Guard.
Visitation will be at Hiers Funeral Home, 910 S.
E. Silver Springs Blvd., from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on
Tuesday. Funeral services will be held the
following day at 11 a.m. at Countryside
Presbyterian Church, 7768 S.W. State Road 200.
This information was last updated 05/18/2016
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