Rural Phillipsburg resident, Jessica A. Gooder, age 21, won her battle with cancer on Thursday, March 26, 2026, at the Phillips County Hospital in Phillipsburg.

She was born on October 1, 2004, in North Platte, NE the daughter of Michael Gooder and Lynette Riemersma.

Survivors include her mother, Lynette Ehm and husband Mike of rural Phillipsburg; Brothers Taylor Riemersma and wife Holly of Argyle, TX and David Ehm of Hays, KS; Sister Jessica Lovelle and husband Tim of Fort Riley, KS; Grandfather Dennis Riemersma of Red Cloud, NE; and her Grandmother Joyce Gooder of Grand Island, NE.

Funeral services will be held this Wednesday, April 1, 2026, at 10:30 a.m., in the Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, Stuttgart, with Pastor Lee Bennight officiating. The services will be livestreamed on the Hugunin Family Funeral Homes Facebook page. Burial will follow in the Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Stuttgart.

Miss Gooder will lie in state from noon until 9 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday in the Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel, Phillipsburg, with the family reciting the Rosary at 6:30 p.m. followed by a visitation from 7:00 p.m until 8:30 p.m. in the funeral chapel.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Jessica A. Gooder Memorial Fund.

Hugunin Family Funeral Homes, Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.