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GODSEY, Opal Rachel (Craycraft) 1915-2006

GODSEY, CRAYCRAFT, NOISE, THIPPS, JACOBY, HUTTON

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 1/31/2014 at 00:38:30

[Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Sunday, January 15, 2006]

CEDAR FALLS - Opal Rachel Godsey, 90, of Cedar Falls died Friday, Jan. 13, 2006, at Sartori Memorial Hospital after a brief illness.

She was born April 16, 1915, in Cleveland, Mo., daughter of Howard and Jesse Noise Craycraft. She married James Seldon Godsey on Oct. 13, 1935, in Kansas City, Mo. He preceded her in death Dec. 24, 1963.

She was a secretary and bookkeeper for many years at Service Printing Co., Herrich Furniture and Campbell Supplies. She was past noble grand and secretary in the Rebekahs and was a member of the American Business Women.

Survivors include a daughter, Joyce (Larry) Thipps of Stockton, Calif.; a son, James S. Jr. (Becky) of Cedar Falls; five grandchildren, Sherry Riordan, Shirley Wellmann, Laureen (Tom) Ross, Julie (Shawn) Botka and Charity (Steve) Rosteck; nine great-grandchildren, Amber and Ashlie Wellmann, Amanda Logue, Elizabeth and Emily Botka and Montana, Houston, Nevada and Jersey Jane Rosteck; three brothers, George Craycraft of Cleveland, Mo., Oliver Craycraft of Peculiar, Mo., and Kenneth (Millie) Craycraft of North Kansas City, Mo.; and two sisters, Ethel Pearl Jacoby of Raymore, Mo., and Ruby (Lloyd) Hutton of Lee's Summit, Mo.

Preceded in death by her parents; her husband; and three brothers, Albert, Edmond and Howard Craycraft.

Services: 2 p.m. Tuesday at Dahl-Van Hove-Schoof Funeral Home, with burial in Cedar Valley Memorial Gardens. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

A memorial fund will be established.


 

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