Son of Homer Godwin & Maudie Katherine (Barnes) Godwin-Brown
S2 USN KIA ON SHIP IN SAIPAN

ROSE HILL CEMETERY, BLOOMING GROVE, TX

Norman Barney Godwin
Texas
S2 US NR
World War II
Jan 20, 1927 - Jul 24, 1944

DIED OF WOUNDS - Norman Godwin, 17, s-2-c, U.S. Navy, died of wounds following action in line of duty, according to a telegram received from Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs chief of U.S. Navy personnel, by his mother Mrs. Maudie White, 610 South Eighteenth and a Half street. Details were not contained in the message. A native of Blooming Grove community, Godwin had been in the service only five months. He attended Blooming Grove high school.

Notes:

• Biography in "The Men and Women in WWII From Navarro County Texas"

• Norman was our neighbor when I was a little girl. He joined the Navy and was killed aboard ship in WWII  ... Diane Richards