 Following her husband's death from cancer on 14 November 1929, Goode continued to be active in the community, contributing to societies for poetry, theatre, Aborigines (at their White's River station they employed a number of aboriginal workers, and were known as good employers), housewives (Mrs. Goode was closely associated over a long period with the Housewives' Association, of which she was one of the early presidents, holding office again in 1930), unemployed women, travellers, local industries and kindergartens (she was a member of the executive committee and the organising committee of the Lady Gowrie Pre-School Centre, president of the Stepney Pre-School Nursery committee, and a delegate to the Australian Association for Pre-School Child Development).She died at Toorak Gardens in 1947 of coronary occlusion and was cremated.Agnes Knight Fleming married William Edward Goode on 11 July 1896.