GLADYS “SHORTY” GODFREY

LAMAR- Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Daniel Funeral Home for Gladys M. “Shorty” Godfrey, 100, Lamar, who died Friday, July 30, 2021, at her home. Burial will follow in Lake Cemetery.

Visitation will be held prior to the service, beginning at 10 a.m.

Contributions are suggested and made payable to Lamar Free Fair Flower Exhibit, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.dfhlamar.com.

Survivors include her sons, Gordon Godfrey and wife Luella, Lamar and Ken Godfrey, Jasper; grandchildren, Ryan Godfrey and wife Leah, Jeff Godfrey and wife Ashley and Ryan Collier, as well as five great-grandchildren, Toby, Edie, Sammy, Bess and Silas. She was also a loving aunt to six nieces and five nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband; one brother, Kenny Simms and a sister, Mary Alice Garrison.

Mrs. Godfrey was born Jan. 21, 1921, in Lamar, to Melvin and Veda (Smith) Simms. She married Lester Eugene Godfrey on Oct. 4, 1942, at the Lamar United Methodist Church, in a double ring ceremony with her sister, Mary Alice and her husband, Ray “Tuffy” Garrison.

She worked as a nurse assistant for Dr. Cain for eight years and as a bank teller for LBT for 24 years. She was also a housewife, a Boy Scouts den mother, Sunday school teacher, Lamar Free Fair Flower Exhibit Committee chairman, a member of the Lamar United Methodist Church and a member of a local bridge club. She had a longtime hobby of golfing with good friend, Betty Jo Gilkey and could still swing a golf club at 93. She could be seen walking the neighborhood for many years with her long time friend and neighbor, Margaret Dermott. She and her friend and co-worker, Shirley Webb, enjoyed their many shopping trips to Kansas City (always looking for shoes and eating spicy Mexican food), with Luella Godfrey always tagging along.