Goss, a master woolhandler, former world championships runner-up and 2008 Golden Shears open woolhandling champion, died suddenly on her 53rd birthday on Friday while at the Taumarunui Shears, where she had competed in the woolhandling. Shearing Sports New Zealand chairman David Fagan expressed the shock, grief and condolences among the shearing community after Goss’ death. Husband Alan also won a Golden Shears title in the 1985 intermediate shearing final. “Naturally we’re all feeling deeply for her family, and the whole of the shearing community will be supporting Alan and the family,” he said. “The whole community is devastated, and it was the right thing to cancel the woolhandling final on Friday.

Source: Stuff March 01, 2021 23:03 UTC