1900 Lowndes Co., GA Valdosta

W H Godwin 22

Carrie Godwin 19

Walter Godwin 3/12 b. Feb 1900 GA/GA/GA

U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016

Name Walter Hampton Godwin

Yearbook Date 1926

School Georgia School of Technology

School Location Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Walter Hampton Godwin

"Walt"

Barnesville, Georgia

Civil Engineering

"Walt" is a real All-American football player. He can't get enough: he has even thought of illuminating Grant Field so he can play all night. It is rumored that this human barrel intends to patent the fashion of wearing the head-gear which he introduced. Tech loses the best guard in the South and the most congenial person on the campus when "Walt" graduates.

Football (1,2,3,4); LaCrosse (3, 4); Freshman Swimming, Track; Skull and Key; Koseme; Bull Dog; Student Council; Pan Hellenic Council; Cotillion Club.

U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995

Name Walter H Godwin

Residence Year 1937

Residence: 1033 2d av

Residence Place Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Occupation Inspector NYPH

Publication Title Honolulu, Hawaii, City Directory, 1937

1940 Honolulu Co., Hawaii Honolulu 2-77

2402A Tenth Ave. $6/mo

Godwin, Walter H. sr. head; 40 grade 17 b. Ga 40 hrs wk civilian employee Quarterman US Navy W Government 52 wks/yr $2880

Hilda G wife 29 12th gr

Walter H jr son 4 b. Hawaii

Greta Grae dau 6/12

Honolulu Star-Bulletin 20 May 1953 p C-9

GODWIN SR., WALTER HAMPTON, age 53, born Valdosta, Ga., Feb. 20, 1900. Residence address, 285 Dewey Court. Died at residence. Time of death May 18, 1953. Services over the cremated remains will be held at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 21 at the chapel, BORTHWICK FUNERAL PARLORS, conducted by Hawaiian Lodge #21 F & AM. Interment of the urn will be at a date and place to be announced later. Survived by wife, Mrs. Adelyn S. Godwin; daughter, Miss Greta Godwin; son, Walter H. Godwin Jr.; mother, Mrs. Carolyn Watson (Barnesville, Ga.); sister, Miss Elizabeth Godwin (Barnesville, Ga.) Mr. Godwin was employed as a shop master at the paint shop, Pearl Harbor Navy Yard. He was a member of Palestine Lodge #486 F & A M of Atlanta, Ga., Honolulu Scottish Rite Bodies, Aloha Temple A.A.O.N.M.S. and Honolulu Lodge #616 B.P.O.E. He was a veteran of World War I. The family requests that flowers be omitted; in lieu of flowers contributions in his memory can be made to the Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children. BORTHWICK FUNERAL PARLORS in charge.

Honolulu_Star_Bulletin_Sat__May_23__1953_. p 7

Walter H. Godwin, Georgia Tech All-American, Dies

Walter Hampton Godwin, 53, of 285 Dewey Court, died at his home Monday. He was born Februrary 29, 1900 in Valdosta, Ga.

Graveside services over the cremated remains will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the National Memorial Cemetery.

Burial willl follow there with full military honors.

Mr. Godwin, a veteran of World War I, served in the 151 st Infantry in France and Germany. He was a first lieutenant in the Georgia National Guard.

He was a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was active in football and won All American honors as a guard.

Mr. Godwin was employed at Pearl Harbor for more than 20 years and received several citations and awards as a senior shop master, including the rank of captain in the Naval Civilian Volunteer Force.

Lodge Member

He was a member of Palestine Lodge No. 486, F. & A.M. of Atlanta, Ga.; the Honolulu Scottish Rite Bodies, Aloha Temple A.A.O.N.M.S., Honolulu Lodge No. 616, B.P.O.E. and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Adelyn S. Godwin; a son, Walter H. Jr., and his mother, Mrs. Carolyn Watson and sister, Elizabeth Godwin, both of Barnesville, Ga.

The family has requested that flowers be omitted. Instead, donations may be made in his memory to the Shriners Hospital.

Borthwick Funeral Parlors is in charge of funeral arrangements.

The Macon Telegraph 22 May 1953 p 34

Walter H. Godwin

BARNESVILLE, May 21-News was received here today by Mrs. L. D. Watson of the death of her son, Walter H. Godwin, 53, a former resident of Barnesville.

Godwin died suddenly of a heart attack in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he has served the Navy as a civil engineer for over 20 years.

Godwin was the son of Mrs. Watson and the late Walter H. Godwin. He was a native of Valdosta and moved to Barnesville when he was a young boy. He attended and was graduated from Gordon Institute, afterwards serving with the famous Rainbow Division in World War I.

He graduated from Georgia Tech in 1926 with a degree in civil engineering. He was a member of the Methodist Church, the Masons and Shriners.

His survivors include his mother, his wife, Adelyn Godwin; a son, Walter Jr., a daughter, Greta of Virginia Beach, Va., and a sister, Miss Elizabeth Godwin.

Godwin will be buried in Honolulu.