Suffolk City-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Godwin, Dr. Bernard W. Jr., 1989 

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BERNARD GODWIN, JR.

BERNARD GODWIN, JR., RETIRED PHYSICIAN

   Philadelphia - Bernard Whitehead Godwin, Jr., a physician, died Feb. 21, 
1989.  He was 62.

   Dr. Godwin, a native of Chuckatuck, Va., attended Virginia Military 
Institute and graduated from Randolph-Macon college with a degree in biology. 
He began his medical study at St. Thomas Hospital Medical School in London and 
graduated from Thomas Jefferson University Medical college in Philadelphia, 
where he also served as an intern.

   Dr. Godwin began a private practice in Philadelphia in 1957, and later 
opened an office in Pennsauken, N.J., where he practiced until his retirement 
in 1987.  He had served on the faculty of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital 
as a clinical associate professor.

   He was a member of Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church in Suffolk.

   He is survived by a sister, Ann G. Moore of Virginia Beach.

   The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens 
Mausoleum, Suffolk.  Entombment will follow the service. R.W. Baker & Co. 
Funeral Home, Suffolk, is handling arrangements.  Friends may join the family 
at the home of Ann Moore, 1009 Colonial Meadows Way, Virginia Beach.

   Memorial donations may be made to the Dr. Bernard W. Godwin, Jr., Memorial 
Fund for Cancer Research of the Prostate, Department of Planned Giving, 618 
Scott Building, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107.


Dr. Bernard Whitehead GODWIN, Jr., retired physician, 
formerly of Philadelphia & NJ, 
Chuckatuck native, d. 21 Feb 1989, age 62, 
entombed in Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens Mausoleum*, Suffolk, 24 Feb 1989, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

His widowed mother, Ethel (SHOOP) GODWIN (1892-1971), 2m. William W. MEISSEL. 

*She is marked with her first husband in Meadowbrook, without mention of 
   MEISSEL. 

His father was originally buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_g.txt 

His father's obit ("Smithfield Times," Apr. 21, 1938) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/g350b2ob.txt 


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