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Douglas Godkin

Douglas  Godkin
1942
Douglas ‘Jack’ Godkin (BCom) died peacefully in a Kitchener-Waterloo, ON, hospital on May 23 at the age of 87. He was predeceased by his wife Mary in 1988, but is lovingly remembered by daughter Ann Kelton (Dave) and son John (Cathy), five granddaughters, his sister, June Burnett (Robert), and sister-in-law Ann Wood of California (BCom’42), MBA Harvard. After Queen’s, Jack served with the 14th Field Regiment RCA in northwestern Europe, 1942-45, and then began a long career with the Ford Motor Co. in Oakville, ON. He lived most of his life in Mississauga, relocating to Waterloo for the last five years.