Goldie F. Kiister

Goldie Fay (Reed) Kiister passed away May 30th, 2025, in Columbus, Kansas after an illness. She was born to Alvin and Mable (Nation) Reed on June 20, 1933, in Rich Hill, Missouri. Often forced to live with others growing up, she was staying with her sister Lorene and brother-in-law Lelin George on their farm when she met a milk hauler who was making his rounds picking up ten-gallon milk cans to deliver to the Kraft plant in Oswego. Six weeks later, on August 22, 1949, at the age of 16, she married that milk hauler, Virgil Ray Addis, ten years her senior, in Oswego.

Never really cut out to be a farm wife, she worked at both Glenn Berry and Fred Ronald's garment manufacturing to help support her family all the while aspiring to be more. She went to work at Labette County Medical Center as a surgical assistant after earning her GED. Continuing to work full shifts she went on to receive her nursing degree from Labette Community College and later earned a BS degree in nursing from Pitt State. In the last 20 years of her nursing career, she was employed at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center.

Goldie was an avid bowler throughout most of her life. She loved walking and browsing flea markets. She liked collecting Campbell Soup memorabilia and especially Cabbage Patch Dolls to which she took great pride in showing to anyone who had a faint interest.

Her husband, Virgil (Bub) Addis passed away January 30, 1983. On December 23, 1986, she married Harold Kiister in Miami, Oklahoma. He passed away July 11, 2011.

Goldie is survived by four children, Lonie Ray Addis (Crystal) Oswego, Donald Fay Addis (Jackie) Rural Oswego, Mable Edythe Hiller (Galen) McCune, Markle Pernell Addis (Jeanie) Belmont, CA. Also surviving are 7 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. In addition to her husbands, she was preceded in death by her parents, a granddaughter Jenifer Russell, a great grandson Boyce, and all her siblings - three brothers, Clifford, Charles, & William and four sisters, Violet, Lorene, Mildred & Alene.

A celebration of life may be scheduled at a later date. Memorials are suggested to Bartlett Christian Church.  These may be left at or mailed to Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home, P.O. Box 374, Parsons, KS  67357.