Goober Says Hey

For almost three years we have enjoyed The Andy Griffith Bible Study at Drennon Christian Church.  I believe tonight will be our 85th lesson overall, with no momentum lost.  We've traveled to our commonwealth's capital the past two years to see The Andy Griffith Christmas Play, too, and became a chapter member of The Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers' Club (Drennon's Deputies chapter), so we love Mayberry.  Tonight, though, we'll meet with a heavy heart.  Goob's gone.

I remember the day Don Knotts died several years ago, and how TVLand showed his best episodes over and over, and we got quite misty-eyed (or at least I did).  I know that over the years we've lost Aunt Bee, Floyd, Otis, Ernest T., Briscoe Darling, Howard, Emmett, Clara, Helen and too many more, but this one really hurts.  Goober was a TV character for longer than any of these others combined, if you count Mayberry RFD and Hee Haw.  Nearly thirty years.

It's always a great consolation when you know the lost loved one was a Christian, though, and I learned that George Lindsay was when I read the forward to the original book that started The Andy Griffith Bible Study.  We've been to Mt. Airy about three times, and I just wish I had been able to run into ol' Goob before he finally went up to heaven to goose St. Peter.

RIP Goob.