Leamington homicide victim remembered as woman of faith, kindness

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 18, 2025 7:47 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

The friends of an 83-year-old homicide unfortunate successful Leamington are remembering her arsenic a pistillate of faith, kindness and generosity. 

Anita Goodings was recovered dormant successful her Sherk Street flat past week erstwhile officers responded to a well-being check, the OPP said. 

"She was a loving person, a quiescent person," longtime person Louise Waggott said Monday. "I'm going to miss her terrible." 

Carolina Hummel, different adjacent friend, said Goodings was giving and unselfish.

"If you needed anything, she would springiness you the garment disconnected her back," Hummel said. 

On Saturday, officers arrested and charged 61-year-old Kevin Goodings with second-degree murder, the OPP said. 

Waggott and Hummel confirmed that Kevin is 1 of Anita's 2 sons and had been surviving with her since astir December.

Kevin is simply a bodybuilder who besides worked arsenic a bouncer, Hummel said.

"She asked him to determination successful due to the fact that helium didn't person a house, helium didn't person a car," she said.

Taking him successful was "what a parent would do," Waggott said.  

Goodings was from bluish Ontario and didn't person overmuch household locally, the women said. But she had her friends, a fellow and her religion community.

"She was good liked successful church," Waggott said. "She was the archetypal 1 to bash anything."

The trio of women had been friends for astatine slightest 3 decades, Waggott said, and attended Seventh Day Adventist Church successful Leamington together. Goodings loved "anything to bash with the Bible." 

"If you recovered her Bible you could archer it was good used," Waggott said. 

The friends besides enjoyed playing games similar rummikub and euchre unneurotic each week. 

"She was a precise casual idiosyncratic to get on with, with cards oregon anything," Waggott said. "She's a very, precise bully person."

Waggott said she'd similar the assemblage to retrieve her person for "how bully she was, however thoughtful she was, however spiritual she was."

"I conscionable thought, erstwhile she died, her past enactment present connected world is the archetypal 1 successful heaven," she said, her dependable cracking.

"She died mode excessively soon," Hummel said, shaking her head. "She didn't merit what happened to her."

Police accidental the probe is ongoing.