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American schoolteacher
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Female
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Birth:
16 January 1917(Southampton County, Virginia, USA)
Death:
5 March 2015(Williamsburg, Brunswick County, Virginia, USA)
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James Madison University
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The details
Biography
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. She died on March 5, 2015, in Williamsburg, Virginia, aged 98.