DATE: Saturday, September 6, 1997           TAG: 9709060278

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B6   EDITION: FINAL 

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ANITA F. GODWIN

Anita Freeman Godwin, 67, of the 500 block of High St., died Wednesday night,Sept. 3, 1997, in her home.

Mrs. Godwin was born in Gates County. The daughter of the late Joseph Ray Sr. and Mrs. Virginia Elizabeth Pittman Freeman, she was a graduate of Buies Creek Academy, Campbell College and Meredith College. A retired school teacher having taught at the Louisburg, N.C. High School and the Whaleyville, Va. High School. She was a member of Gatesville Baptist Church.

Surviving are her husband, Philip P. Godwin Sr.; a son, Philip P. Godwin Jr. and his wife, Nora Bundy Godwin, of Gatesville; two grandchildren, Hannah Pittman Godwin and Philip Pittman Godwin III; her sister, Edith Freeman Seiling of Gates; two sisters-in-law, Sally Mathias Freeman of Gates and Margaret Simpson Freeman of Ahoskie. She was preceded in death by her two brothers, Joseph Ray Freeman Jr. and Julian Pittman Freeman.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today in Gatesville Baptist Church by the Rev. Gene Asbill and the Rev. Billy Presley. Burial will follow in the Godwin family plot at the Gatesville Cemetery with the Rev. Richard Wynne officiating. Friends may join the family at the residence. Miller Funeral Home, Gatesville, is in charge.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that contributions in her memory be directed to Roanoke-Chowan Hospice, P.O. Box 272, Ahoskie, N.C. 27910 or to the American Cancer Society, Gates County Chapter, P.O. Box 296, Gatesville, N.C. 27938. KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

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