 She grew up on a farm in Michigan, and ranched in Kansas before settling in Arizona where she owned and ran a ranch with her husband from 1958 until 1965.She outlived her first husband Jim Goodwine (died 1965) and second husband Floyd Phillips (died 1996).Goodwine was an illustrator for the Leaning Tree Cards and Western Art, Inc. For example, her painting of two horses looking in a window at a candlelit Christmas tree scene became the most popular Western greeting card sold in America that year.