Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....GODWIN, MARGUERITE MCHENRY May 4, 2009 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gina Brown http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006026 May 6, 2009, 6:05 pm News Star World - May 06, 2009 MARGUERITE MCHENRY GODWIN Mulhearn Funeral Home Sterlington Road, Monroe, LA Visitation for Marguerite McHenry Godwin will be from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM Wednesday, May 6, 2009, at the Chapel of Mulhearn's Funeral Home on Highway 165 North with graveside services at 2:00 PM at the Riverview Cemetery on South Grand St. Marguerite, better known as Snooky to all her friends and family, died at her home in Monroe on Monday, May 4, 2009. Snooky, born in Monroe on February 2, 1921, was the daughter of Marjorie Myatt McHenry and Neal Wendell McHenry. She is preceded in death by her husband Tom Pete Godwin and grandson, Stanley Donald Shlosman, III. She attended local schools and entered Stephens College in 1937 and graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1941. Snooky returned to Monroe and worked for Delta Airlines. In 1947, Snooky married Tom Pete Godwin with whom she shared 48 years. Snooky was a member of the First United Methodist Church for seventy seven years. She was a member of the Collin Washburn Sunday School class where she taught for thirty years. Snooky was a member of the Monroe Junior League, the Monroe Garden Club, and the Pilot Club. She served on the Ouachita Parish Public Library Board and was a trustee on the State Library Board. She also served on the Board for the Ouachita Council on Aging. Snooky played bridge once a week for sixty years with a wonderful group of ladies who were her dearest friends. Snooky was an avid writer and her family and friends were the recipients of poems and stories on their birthdays, anniversaries and various celebrations of their lives. She is survived by her two daughters; Leila Godwin Turpin and her husband Jeff of Arkadelphia, AR, and Marjorie Wendell Godwin; four grandchildren, Peter Jefferson (PJ) Turpin and his wife Fran; Caroline Curry and her husband, Andy; Thomas Wendell Shlosman; and Leila Ann Shlosman; two great grandsons, Thomas Curry and Clayton Turpin. Serving as pallbearers are P.J. Turpin, Thomas Shlosman, William Smitha Nadler, William Smitha Nadler IV, and Lewis McHenry. Honorary pallbearers are Armand McHenry, Henry Biedenharn, Jack Mabry, John Shealy and Dr. James W. Wade. A special thanks to her friend of thirty years, Mary Bratcher. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/ouachita/obits/g/godwin164nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/lafiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb