I am sorry to announce that my friend and my business partner, Dave Goss, passed away at his home on January 26, 2026. This is a shock to all who knew and loved Dave. Dave had an incredible spirit, and he has left a void in this world that I don’t think he could ever comprehend.

Most know that Dave had a tremendous love for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It was a topic he and I discussed a lot. He loved everything about that track and has a memorabilia collection that is probably not surpassed by many others in the world. He would use the world as a treasure hunt to find the rarest of rarest items the track’s history had to offer. And when he found something, he loved to share the story with us. I will miss those stories. I will miss all his stories. Hearing Dave’s pocket change and other items he carried rattle as he walked down the hallway to tell me something he had found, or something he had accomplished, like beating prostate cancer. Dave had just “rung the bell” a few weeks ago, and he was so happy that he had beaten it. Weeks of radiation wore him down, but he never gave up the fight. Those last few weeks, he was as happy as I had ever seen him.

I had just asked him if he talked to Donald Davidson recently. He said he had not, but wanted to give him a call. He called Donald the day he died. It may have been the last conversation he had with someone before his passing. How fitting that Dave would have a conversation with one of the few men in the world who knew more about the Indianapolis Motor Speedway than he did. The thought of that makes me smile.

Dave never married and never had kids, but what he had was a friend network that loved him oh so dearly. He adored his siblings and would have done anything for them. He loved owning the accounting firm with me. It made him proud. He always cared about the people who worked for us and was caring and compassionate to his clients. He always wanted to help out elderly widows with their taxes because he felt nobody else wanted to take care of them. He did and did it with love and caring in his heart.

He was a strong Christian and was always involved with his church family. He felt his duty to help wherever he could. I recently shared a snippet that was in my daily devotional from the day that Dave died. It was from 2 Timothy 4:6-8 “I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.”

Wherever you are for this year’s Indy 500, when taps play, when Back Home Again in Indiana finishes, and those jets fly over, raise a glass of whatever you have, and say, “That is for you, Dave.”

God bless you, David Robert Goss. I am so thankful for your friendship over the years, and we will all miss you dearly.

Sincerely and with love, your friend and business partner, Brent.