GOODMAN, Sophia (1930-2025)

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Apr 8, 2025, 12:35:04 PM4/8/25
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Sophie, or Sonia, Goodman, born Countess Kleinmichel, granddaughter of a Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, died on 5 April 2025.

Her husband, a grandson of Lady Ottoline Morrell, died a week earlier.

Here is a source:

Announced by a member of the Historical Studies of the Russian Church Abroad group, honoring her as "daughter of ROCOR London's cathedral warden and the oldest parishioner of the congregation.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/110063552339710/posts/23931254846460580/

He posted on 6 April that she died "yesterday", so 5 April.

A 2013 article about her

https:/www.LeighRayment.com.au

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Apr 9, 2025, 3:13:24 AM4/9/25
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Comte Wladimir Pétrovitch Kleinmichel
*6./19.1.1901 Koursk, Russie
oo 14.6.1929 Londres
Comtesse Maria Georgievna von Carlow
*19.10./1.11.1893 Oranienbaum, St. Pétersbourg, Russie
+5.9.1979 Londres
Fille du duc Georges von Mecklembourg-Strelitz et de son épouse 
morganatique née Natalia Vonlialarsky titrée comtesse von Carlow
      |
Comtesse Sophia Wladimirovna Kleinmichel
*27.3.1930 Londres
+5.4.2025
oo 17.5.1957 Londres
Philip Goodman
*17.6.1931 Londres
Fils de Sir Victor Martin Reeves Goodman et de son épouse née Julian 
Ottoline Morrell

Dont postérité:

Mary Goodman *20.10.1959 Montréal, Canada

Catherine Goodman *22.4.1961 Londres

Elisabeth Goodman *21.1.1964 Londres

Sophie Goodman *11.9.1965 Londres

SOURCE
Ferrand, Jacques (1943-2007)
Les familles comtales de l’ancien Empire de Russie, en émigration 1
Montreuil: Jacques Ferrand 1981. 235 p.
p. 114

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Apr 11, 2025, 8:07:33 PM4/11/25
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Sonia Goodman, née Countess Kleinmichel, died on 5 April 2025, aged 95 years, one week after the death of Philip, her husband of 67 years; mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Funeral to be held on Wednesday, 30 April 2025 at 11.30 a.m. at The London Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, 57 Harvard Road, W4 4ED. A joint interment will be held after the service.

Source: The Telegraph, 12 April 2025
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