Richard Goos, 90, anesthesiologist at former W. Jersey Hospital

Richard C. Goos was president of the West Jersey Medical Society in 1965-66, though the organization did not have the geographical significance that its name might have implied.

The society was limited to the medical staff at West Jersey Hospital - now Virtua - where Dr. Goos was a staff anesthesiologist.

"West Jersey was a very small hospital" in those years, Dr. Goos' wife, Norma, said. And so, in a spirit of camaraderie, the physicians, "not too many, met every month and had a speaker."

But even with those modest efforts, she said, after a while, the society "was disbanded."

On Sunday, July 12, Dr. Goos, 90, died at the Pines at Whiting, a retirement community in that Ocean County town, where he had lived with his wife for the last two years.

The Gooses lived in Cherry Hill from 1957 to 1984, then moved to Columbus before relocating to Whiting.

Dr. Goos grew up in Frankford and lived in the Oxford Circle neighborhood, graduated from Central High School in 1942, and attended Pennsylvania State University for two years before graduating in 1948 from the medical school of Hahnemann University Hospital, his wife said.

He took graduate courses in anesthesiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania while working as an intern and a resident at West Jersey.

From 1955 to 1957, Dr. Goos fulfilled his military obligation by working as a physician for the U.S. Public Health Service, at a military hospital on Staten Island, N.Y.

The military service interrupted his career with West Jersey Anesthesiology Associates, which began in the firm's offices at West Jersey Hospital in 1952 and continued until he retired in 1983 from the firm's office in Marlton, his wife said.

Dr. Goos was a member of the New Jersey Anesthesiology Society and the Camden County and American Medical Societies.

Besides his wife, he is survived by son Robert, daughters Dorothy Diehm and Barbara, and a grandson.

A viewing was set from 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday, July 16, at the Foster-Warne Funeral Home, 820 Haddon Ave., Collingswood, before an 11 a.m. funeral service there, with interment in Lakeview Memorial Park, Cinnaminson.

Donations may be sent to the Deborah Hospital Foundation, 212 Trenton Rd., Browns Mills, N.J. 08015 or www.deborahfoundation.org.

Condolences may be offered to the family at www.fosterwarnefuneralhome.com.

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