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WWII test pilot served as steel executive

By Tory N. Parrish

Published: Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, 12:01 a.m.

Robert Good and Joan Bourne met in 1953, when she was a waitress who served him and his friends on a ski vacation at Sun Valley Resort in Idaho.

“Oh, I thought he was handsome. He was. He was a pretty dynamic guy,” she said.

A year and a half later, they married, she said.

Last week, they said their final goodbyes after 58 years of marriage.

Robert Frank Good of Fox Chapel died on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, in Good Samaritan Hospice in Marshall. He was 90.

Mr. Good was a generous, charismatic former steel industry executive who loved his family dearly, family members said.

Born and raised in Mt. Oliver, Mr. Good was the only child of Frank and Beatrice Good.

While attending South Hills High School, he worked as an office clerk with Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. He graduated from high school in 1941 and enrolled in the University of Pittsburgh. In 1943, Mr. Good dropped out of Pitt to join the Army Air Corps, for which he served as a test pilot during World War II. He was honorably discharged as a captain in 1946, his family said.

Mr. Good continued working in the steel industry while earning a bachelor's degree in industrial management from Pitt in 1949, which helped him to advance to management positions. Mr. Good left LTV Corp., which bought J&L in 1974, as vice president of sales around 1975, his wife said.

He later worked at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel until 1991. Mr. Good founded a steel industry consulting business, R.F. Good and Associates, Downtown, which he ran until he retired in 2001.

Mr. Good was generous in his dealings with others, said his daughter, Kelly Baham of Richmond, Va.

“He was always so nice to waitresses and tipped heavily, and to people that he would see on the street,” she said.

Mr. Good liked fishing, golfing, skiing and animals, Joan Good said.

In addition to his wife, Joan, and daughter, Kelly, Mr. Good is survived by children Diane Dinenberg of Exton in Chester County, and Chris and Scott Good of Fox Chapel; and 10 grandchildren.

Friends will be received from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday in John A. Freyvogel Sons Inc., 4900 Centre Avenue at Devonshire Street in Shadyside. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church, 384 Fox Chapel Road.

Tory N. Parrish is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-380-5662 or tparrish@tribweb.com.

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