Extracted from The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Elmore Godwin
BENSON -- Mr. Elmore Godwin, 69, of 692 West Johnson Road died Friday at Duke Medical Center in Durham.
He was born in Johnston County May 10, 1935, to the late Albert and Velie Jones Godwin. He was a retired custodian with the Benson Elementary and Benson Middle School and a member of Stone's Creek Advent Christian Church.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Stone's Creek Advent Christian Church. Revs. Doug Abel and Tom Dorman will officiate. Burial will follow in Banner Chapel Church Cemetery.
Survivors include: wife, Verdie McLamb Godwin; sister, Pauline McLamb of Benson; grandchildren, Joi McLamb of Benson, Candace Watson of Wake Forest, Sharyn ``Spankie'' Wood of Benson, Randy Norris of Benson; great grandchildren, Landon Wood, Jackson Wood, and Savanna Norris; nieces, Willa Faye McLamb of Benson, Gloria Bianchi of Kinston.
The family will receive friends at Rose & Graham Funeral Home from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday and at the home of Joi and Timothy McLamb, 583 W. Hale St., Benson, at other times.
Sunday, August 8, 2004