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The former merchandise purchaser did more than stock Disney stores with first-aid and hygiene products.
She helped and chatted with park visitors, including Michael Jackson, and employees. She was a mother figure to many cast members, said her daughter, Tracy Goodson, 50, of Belle Isle, who is a Disney international sales representative.
"[She] was able to display her love and compassion," Tracy Goodson said.
"It was a privilege to share her with others."
She was the glue of the family, she said.
After the family moved from southern West Virginia, it was Minnie Fortuna Goodson's phone calls and birthday and anniversary cards that kept the family informed about other relatives, her nephew, John David Brant, 43, of Miami Beach, said.
"We never went out without going to a Hallmark store and post office," Tracy Goodson said.
Brant received a card stuffed with a $1 bill every Christmas, Easter, Halloween and St. Patrick's Day, even at age 43.
She took the time to write because family was the most important thing, he said.
"Minnie is all about family. She was the true Minnie," Brant said.
And he said she added the "magic" at Disney World.
Goodson died Thursday at the Hospice of the Comforter in Altamonte Springs after battling lung cancer.
She was 79.
Baldwin-Fairchild Lake Ivanhoe Chapel is handling funeral arrangements.
Goodson, whose daughter nicknamed her "Mouse" after Minnie Mouse, retired from Walt Disney World in 1993.
Although retirement was difficult at first, Tracy Goodson said her mother embraced it, playing bingo and spending time with friends and finding new ones.
She loved to travel. She and her daughter flew to London and Australia, where Goodson connected with a cousin she had never met. They also took a cruise to Alaska and hopped on a small airplane to circle around the mountains.
"She was always ready to get in a car or jump on a plane" to travel, Tracy Goodson said.
"She was hip and cool."
But people will remember her for traditional Italian humor, Brant said.
"She had the essence of an Italian aunt," he said.
"All the good things and crazy parts of [being] Italian."
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