Omaha, Neb. — Edie Godfrey was born in Gardner, MA, to Roger Needham and Anne Norcross Needham on July 14, 1942. She passed away at her home on September 3, 2014, after a 6-1/2 year battle with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer.
Edie graduated from Gardner High School in 1960, Simmons College in 1964, and Northeastern University, both in Boston, in 1966. She married Michael Godfrey in 1964. In Boston, she taught remedial reading, and in Omaha she taught English as a Second Language at UNO until 2001. She and Mike, hosted dozens of foreign students who were taking English-language classes at UNO. She loved art, lecturing to elementary school classes when her children were young, later becoming a docent at the Joslyn Art Museum, and attended a month-long print-making class in Florence, Italy. She sang in her church choir for many years, in the Omaha Symphonic Chorus, and with the Prairie Plaide Scottish Band. She served on the Board of Nebraska Advocacy Services (Omaha) for several years.
She is survived by her husband, Mike; her sons and daughters-in-law, Benjamin and Michelle, Bruce and Kate, and Jared; five grandchildren; her sister, Elizabeth; and her brother, Arthur.
Her remains were donated to the Nebraska Anatomical Board at the University of NE Medical Center to benefit medical education.
A memorial service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 20, at First Central Congregational Church, 421 S. 36th St., Omaha. Memorials may be sent to First Central Congregational Church.
GHS Classmates are welcome to post comments sharing memories of Edith on this blog.
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