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Cecelia Weeks is of Goodland’s first residents

Cecelia Whidden Weeks, 84, welcomes an Eagle reporter into her home as she moves from Goodland over Labor Day weekend. Weeks is known as one of Goodland's 'last living legends.' The home, now for sale, is the one she lived in almost her entire life and it is among the first 15 homes in Goodland that were moved from Caxambas by heirs of Barron Collier in 1949.

Photo by KELLY FARRELL, Staff

Cecelia Whidden Weeks, 84, welcomes an Eagle reporter into her home as she moves from Goodland over Labor Day weekend. Weeks is known as one of Goodland's "last living legends." The home, now for sale, is the one she lived in almost her entire life and it is among the first 15 homes in Goodland that were moved from Caxambas by heirs of Barron Collier in 1949.

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  • Cecelia Whidden Weeks is unbothered as her cat Pixie jumps in a moving box. Weeks recently moved from Goodland to be with her daughter Linda Weeks Rose in Kentucky. The Whidden's and Weeks' families are among Southwest Florida's first settlers preceding even the Collier family.
  • Cecelia Whidden Weeks, 84, welcomes an Eagle reporter into her home as she moves from Goodland over Labor Day weekend. Weeks is known as one of Goodland's 'last living legends.' The home, now for sale, is the one she lived in almost her entire life and it is among the first 15 homes in Goodland that were moved from Caxambas by heirs of Barron Collier in 1949.
  • Cecelia Weeks and son, Bob. Bob died in a fishing accident in 2006.
  • Cecelia Weeks and Stan Gober, owner of Stan’s Idle Hour Restaurant, dancing it up about 20 years ago at the Mullet Festival in Goodland.

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