COLLINS, Miss. (AP) - James “Jimmy” Goff, longtime publisher and editor of The News-Commercial weekly newspaper in Collins, has died at 84.
Goff died Thursday at Regency Hospital in Hattiesburg. His funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at First Baptist Church in Collins.
A Lucedale native and Korean War veteran, Goff taught school and coached in Shaw and Mount Olive.
He began working at the News-Commercial after his father-in-law, Jimmy Arrington, died in 1957, becoming editor in 1960.
Goff was a deacon at Collins’ First Baptist Church, a Rotary Club member, a referee for the Mississippi High School Activities Association and a former Covington County Hospital trustee.
Survivors include wife Analyn Arrington Goff, daughter Anna Goff and son James Arrington Goff, all of Collins; as well as brother Frank Goff of Knoxville, Tennessee.
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