ROCKINGHAM– Former Richmond Senior High School athletic director Jerry Goodman died in early November at his home at the age of 73.

He was a 1957 graduate of Rockingham High School, where he lettered in four sports and went on to play baseball at Wake Forest.

Goodman began his teaching and coaching career at Rockingham High School in 1962 and then moved to Richmond in ’72 to teach and coach basketball and cross country. He served as Hamlet Junior High as an assistant principal and then went back to Richmond as assistant principal and athletic director before his retirement in 2003.

       Funeral services will be conducted at three o’clock Saturday afternoon at First United Methodist Church in Rockingham.  The family will receive friends in the fellowship hall of the church Saturday from 12:30 to 2:30 pm.