Katherine Godwin | |
Birth Name: | Katherine Thomas Beale |
Office: | First Lady of Virginia |
Term Label: | In role |
Term Start: | January 12, 1974 |
Term End: | January 14, 1978 |
Predecessor: | Jinks Holton |
Successor: | Edwina P. Dalton |
Term Label1: | In role |
Term Start1: | January 15, 1966 |
Term End1: | January 17, 1970 |
Predecessor1: | Lacey Virginia Barkley |
Successor1: | Jinks Holton |
Birth Date: | 16 January 1917 |
Birth Place: | Southampton County, Virginia, U.S. |
Death Place: | Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | Madison College |
Parents: | Fenton Parker and Dilla Bradshaw Beale[1] |
Katherine Godwin (January 16, 1917 – March 5, 2015) was the First Lady of Virginia from 1966 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1978. She was born in Southampton County in 1917 and lost both parents to the 1918 flu epidemic. She graduated from Madison College in 1930 and taught elementary school in Chuckatuck, Virginia, before marrying Mills E. Godwin, Jr., in 1940.[2] She died on March 5, 2015, in Williamsburg, Virginia, aged 98.[3]