Dorothy Newell Talbot

The youngest of Arthur Newell Talbot's children was Dorothy ("Dee") Newell Talbot, who married Warren Franklin Goodell from Loda, Ill., a banker and later an agricultural economics department staff member at the University of Illinois.

Dorothy graduated from Radcliffe in 1920 in French, and received another degree from Illinois in 1921 in home economics. It was at Radcliffe that she met Warren F. Goodell, a student at Harvard, who happened to be from Loda, Ill., only 30 miles north of her hometown, Urbana. "They got together on what happened to be Armistice Day in 1918," Barbara Fuller says. "And Daddy always said he didn't even have enough money to go into Boston for the celebration so they walked to the Cambridge Commons instead. Mother thought that was very satisfactory."

However, during Dorothy's senior year at Radcliffe, her mother Virginia died, and Dorothy returned home. "I t was just understood that the youngest would come home and take care of Grandfather," Barbara continues. "Looking back on it, it always seems a little Victorian somehow. But of course it was."

Dorothy did return to Massachusetts to complete her work at Radcliffe, then lived with her father until 1922, when she married Warren Goodell and settled in Loda.

"Loda was a different kind of place," Barbara explains. "I t was a town of 500 people. And I can remember Mother telling me that when she was married and moved there, that there were four Mrs. Goodells in town and she was the 'Junior Mrs. Goodell.' It was definitely, as they say, a very privileged upbringing. My Goodell grandfather was a banker, and Dad was a banker until the banks closed. So even in the depths of the Depression we were living in this great big house, which I recall they heated with corn cobs one winter because coal was too expensive. Looking back, it was a fairly strict upbringing. But we always had a lot of fun and mother was a lot of fun. She was a demon card player. She and Dad loved to play bridge and we played a four-handed solitaire, 13 pile, which she won every time.

"And there was always lots of family around. I had Goodell cousins in Loda, and when I was growing up the Westergaards were still in Urbana, so there were lots of trips back and forth to Urbana, to see Grandfather and to see her sister [Rachel].... And Mildred was in Ames, and of course so many of us cousins were the same age that we really saw a lot of each other. Aunt Mildred especially I enjoyed because she had the two boys [Herbert and Arthur], and I was the nearest little girl, so I got all sorts of benefits."

Of the three sisters, Barbara claims, "Mildred was the quiet one, Rachel was the almost wild one, and Mother was -- it was funny but being the youngest of the three I think she sometimes felt responsible for her older sisters. They very much enjoyed each other's company."

"She had an interest in antiques, particularly antique glass and furniture," her son Warren Jr. recalls.

In 1942, after the death of her father, Dorothy returned to Urbana with her husband and their two daughters to live in her father's house. Her son, Warren Jr., was staying with Arthur at the time. When Arthur's estate was divided among the children, Dorothy inherited the house, and she and Warren continued to live there until 1965, "when Dad sold the house property to the University to make room for the Krannert Center," Warren Jr. relates. "They moved to 501 West Indiana, formerly their church deacon's home on the corner of Carle Park in Urbana." Warren died in 1965. Dorothy remained in Urbana until 1981, when she moved to Irvington, N.Y., to live with her son and his wife. In 1982 she moved to a nearby nursing home. Dorothy died in 1983 at the age of 85.