Warren County Election Commission deputy Sandy Goble has voted in every presidential election that has taken place since she turned 18. “I believe it is not only our right but our responsibility to vote,” she says.
She has served the voters and residents of Warren County in her current role since May of 2017, and she loves the camaraderie that exists among current members of the Election Commission staff, including election administrator Susie Davenport, Inez Nunley, and Alex Juarez. “I like that we’re a team,” Goble says.
Goble was born and raised in the Ohio town of Fremont, located in the northern part of the state outside of Toledo. She had two older sisters, a younger brother, and two loving parents.
Her parents, who were married 53 years, were some of the best a child could have, according to Goble. “I had a really good childhood. My parents were the best. My mom did so much for us kids.”
Goble remembers one thing her father taught her was, “Whatever you do, you need to do it to the best of your ability.” She has tried to live by that advice by doing her best work on any job she has done throughout her life.
One particularly joyful memory Goble has from childhood is when her mother and father would take her and her siblings sledding after big snowfalls. They would go to a popular sledding site in Fremont called Hospital Hill, where they would pile onto sleds together and race down the hill. “We just played for hours,” Goble says.
Goble graduated from high school in Fremont in June of 1989, married her high school sweetheart in July, and became a wife and mother. She had two daughters, Callie and Carlie. While raising her young family, Goble worked a variety of jobs including as a bus driver, a waitress at Rudy’s diner, and a staff member at the Fremont News-Messenger.
Eventually, around 2001, she found work in the customer service department of a company called Arius Eickert, which made scissors for beauty salons. Goble stayed with the company even after it merged with McMinnville-based Oster Professional Products. At that point, around April of 2008, Goble made the move to McMinnville with her family and began work in the customer service department of Oster.
Goble stayed with Arius Eickert/Oster until 2016. The following year, after seeing an opening for a Warren County Election Commission staff position in the Southern Standard, she began her tenure there.
At the Election Commission Goble and other staff members process new voter registrations, send out voter registration cards, handle changes in voter addresses, do a goodly amount of paperwork and filing, and implement periodic voter registration drives. She says individuals with a driver’s license or state-issued ID card can register to vote online by going to GoVoteTN.com.
Those individuals without state-issued ID can register to vote by stopping by the Election Commission at 201 Locust Street or by calling, 931-473-5834.
When Goble is not at work, the thing she enjoys most is spending time with her grandchildren Cayden and Annaleigh, 7 and 5, respectively. She likes being a grandmother even more than she liked being a parent to her own kids. As a grandparent “you have so much love to give,” Goble says.
When not at work or seeing her grandchildren on Saturdays, Goble relishes reality TV shows like “Big Brother,” “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette,” and “The Amazing Race.” Her favorite movie is “Jerry Maguire,” in which a sports agent played by Tom Cruise comes to realize that quality personal relationships are more important than money. “That’s what I like about it,” says Goble. “Change is possible.”
Goble attends the Spirit of Life and Hope church, and one of her favorite quotations is “Kindness does not cost anything.” “I personally hope that I live that way,” she says. “If there’s anything I could do for anybody, please feel free to ask me. I’d be willing to help anybody.”
