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From: "HELEN LANE CARMICHAEL" <>
Subject: [SCMARION-L] Godbold-Nobles
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 18:03:49 -0400


The State (Columbia): Friday, June 8, 2001


Rev. Willie Godbold




MARION (--) Services for Rev. Willie Lee Godbold, 83, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 9, 2001 at the Chapel of Smith-Collins Funeral Home, with the Rev. Maxie Hardee officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery, directed by Smith-Collins Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 7-9 this evening at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to West Marion Baptist Church, P.O. Box 886, Marion, SC 29571.

Rev. Godbold died Wednesday, June 6, 2001 at his residence after an illness. Born in Dillon County, April 6, 1918, he was a son of the late Cade and Lilly Nobles Godbold. Rev. Godbold was a minister and had retired from Atlantic Coastline Railroad. He was a member of West Marion Baptist Church. Rev. Godbold was first married to the late Mary Christmas Godbold.

Surviving are his wife, Ruby Baker Godbold of the home; daughters and sons-in-law, Ann and Richard Bennett of Florence and Virginia and Bobby Calder of Conway; five grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; stepchildren, Faye Whitley and Darcell Casey, both of Wilson County, N.C., Bonnie Batchelor and Haywood Baker, both of Nash County, N.C. and Paulette Brown of Rockville, Va.; nine stepgrandchildren and four stepgreat-grandchildren. Rev. Godbold was predeceased by brothers, Hugh Godbold and Douglas Godbold and sister, Annie Crump.


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