For years a friend would tell me, "Try tofu. Try miso," and I would look at her, appalled. Could she really believe that I would ever attempt to eat such weird stuff? Was she sane? Now I eat it regularly.
Likewise, I met suggestions about exercising the same way. I even responded with jokes about waiting in parking lots to get a space as close to the store entrance as possible. Me exercise?
And don't talk about even trying to eat fat-free foods. It was inconceivable. No, I did not eat some of the really fat-filled food of the Virgin Islands, such as souse or corn pork, but I surely handled many others well.
I, as a true Virgin Islander, do not believe in "talking my business in the street." Alcoholics Anonymous and other forums where you talk your "business" to a whole group is not for me — although intellectually I am a firm believer that these groups can really make a difference. And I do strongly recommend the lasting benefits of joining self-help groups. But, as a Virgin Islander, I just cannot believe that if you talk your business in a group, it will not travel any further than the room you are in.
Well, I am deviating from my personal belief system in the hopes that doing so may help others. And as a professional social worker, I am committed to making a difference for the better in any way that I can.
I have heart disease. I had six coronary bypasses almost a year and a half ago. Now, although it is not easy, I do exercise, and I dedicate myself to trying lots of reduced-fat or fat-free foods, adapting many fat-filled local recipes. Some have come out inedible, yet others have been delicious. I no longer smoke. In an effort to reduce stress, I try not to place unrealistic demands on myself or to let others do so. And I focus on doing what is necessary to prolong my life and maintain a good quality of life in the future.
This may sound easy to those of you gifted with strong personal motivations (or good genes) to maintain your bodies and refrain from addictions or inclinations that are damaging to your body. But to me, it is amazing that I am living this kind of lifestyle. I now realize — a bit late I may add — that, had I lived this way from a young age, I most likely would not have heart disease. And for those of you who don’t know, heart disease is permanent. A change in lifestyle slows its progress but does not halt it. I still have a ways to go, like getting slim, but I am convinced I am on my way and will get there.
As I walk on the Cyril E. King Airport perimeter sidewalk, or at other times on the St. Thomas waterfront apron, I see the large number of other people, particularly women, exercising, too. As is traditional here, most say "hello" or "good evening" as we pass each other by. (Remember when a public figure thought the Port Authority could increase revenues by charging for the use of its sidewalk? A novel approach, wouldn’t you say?)
Previously unknown to me, heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women. I would have thought it was cancer, particularly breast cancer, if I had given it any thought at all. However, in reading about heart disease, I find that one in 10 American women 45 to 64 years of age has some form of heart disease, and the rate increases to one in four women over 65.
New information that I have learned from The Women's Heart Institute is that African-American women have the greatest risk of heart disease of any gender or ethnic group, with heart disease their No. 1 cause of death after the age of 25. Obviously, that puts most of the Virgin Islands population at even greater risk. It also is said that about 40 percent of the time the traditional stress test is inaccurate as it pertains to women. Therefore, further testing, such as an echocardiogram, is necessary.
Women do not get the attention from the medical field and the media that men do as regards heart disease. Fortunately for me, my excellent primary care physician picked up on a comment I made and sent me on the path that led to the discovery of my heart disease before I had a heart attack. I remain eternally grateful to her and for her paying attention to every little detail (yeah for women!).
Washington Hospital Center, where I had my surgery, has had a Women's Heart Disease Education and Prevention Program since 1996. The program provides information on the specific symptoms found in women and says our symptoms are usually more subtle than those found in men with heart disease. These symptoms are:
– Angina — chest discomfort or fullness.
– Breathlessness — experienced during activities, or upon waking up at night.
– Chronic fatigue — inability to complete routine activities.
– Dizziness — a condition which can indicate irregular heartbeats, or arrhythmia.
– Edema — swelling, particularly of the lower legs and ankles.
– Fluttering heartbeats — rapid heartbeats that may cause pain or difficulty in breathing.
– Gastric upset — nausea unrelated to diet.
The web site of the Washington Hospital Center offers much interesting and useful information. For example, it notes there are risk factors in women that you cannot control (age, family history and race) and those you can (smoking, high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, obesity).
We as women need to listen to our bodies and learn to focus on ourselves. It is not selfish or self centered; it is necessary. Many of us spend a lifetime personally or professionally helping others and put "us" on the back burner. Stress is common among women as we balance our professional and personal selves.
I do not profess to be any type of health professional, and I hope nothing I have written is inaccurate. But I have done this to remind all of you women who read this, and any male reader who loves a woman, to take heed from it. Go to the web sites, think about yourself and try to change a little bit at a time. Heart disease and surgery is awfully scary (and expensive). If I can make progress in this area, believe me, anybody can.

Editor's note: Catherine L. Mills of St. Thomas, a former Human Services commissioner, holds a master's degree in social work.

For years a friend would tell me, "Try tofu. Try miso," and I would look at her, appalled. Could she really believe that I would ever attempt to eat such weird stuff? Was she sane? Now I eat it regularly.
Likewise, I met suggestions about exercising the same way. I even responded with jokes about waiting in parking lots to get a space as close to the store entrance as possible. Me exercise?
And don't talk about even trying to eat fat-free foods. It was inconceivable. No, I did not eat some of the really fat-filled food of the Virgin Islands, such as souse or corn pork, but I surely handled many others well.
I, as a true Virgin Islander, do not believe in "talking my business in the street." Alcoholics Anonymous and other forums where you talk your "business" to a whole group is not for me — although intellectually I am a firm believer that these groups can really make a difference. And I do strongly recommend the lasting benefits of joining self-help groups. But, as a Virgin Islander, I just cannot believe that if you talk your business in a group, it will not travel any further than the room you are in.
Well, I am deviating from my personal belief system in the hopes that doing so may help others. And as a professional social worker, I am committed to making a difference for the better in any way that I can.
I have heart disease. I had six coronary bypasses almost a year and a half ago. Now, although it is not easy, I do exercise, and I dedicate myself to trying lots of reduced-fat or fat-free foods, adapting many fat-filled local recipes. Some have come out inedible, yet others have been delicious. I no longer smoke. In an effort to reduce stress, I try not to place unrealistic demands on myself or to let others do so. And I focus on doing what is necessary to prolong my life and maintain a good quality of life in the future.
This may sound easy to those of you gifted with strong personal motivations (or good genes) to maintain your bodies and refrain from addictions or inclinations that are damaging to your body. But to me, it is amazing that I am living this kind of lifestyle. I now realize — a bit late I may add — that, had I lived this way from a young age, I most likely would not have heart disease. And for those of you who don’t know, heart disease is permanent. A change in lifestyle slows its progress but does not halt it. I still have a ways to go, like getting slim, but I am convinced I am on my way and will get there.
As I walk on the Cyril E. King Airport perimeter sidewalk, or at other times on the St. Thomas waterfront apron, I see the large number of other people, particularly women, exercising, too. As is traditional here, most say "hello" or "good evening" as we pass each other by. (Remember when a public figure thought the Port Authority could increase revenues by charging for the use of its sidewalk? A novel approach, wouldn’t you say?)
Previously unknown to me, heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women. I would have thought it was cancer, particularly breast cancer, if I had given it any thought at all. However, in reading about heart disease, I find that one in 10 American women 45 to 64 years of age has some form of heart disease, and the rate increases to one in four women over 65.
New information that I have learned from The Women's Heart Institute is that African-American women have the greatest risk of heart disease of any gender or ethnic group, with heart disease their No. 1 cause of death after the age of 25. Obviously, that puts most of the Virgin Islands population at even greater risk. It also is said that about 40 percent of the time the traditional stress test is inaccurate as it pertains to women. Therefore, further testing, such as an echocardiogram, is necessary.
Women do not get the attention from the medical field and the media that men do as regards heart disease. Fortunately for me, my excellent primary care physician picked up on a comment I made and sent me on the path that led to the discovery of my heart disease before I had a heart attack. I remain eternally grateful to her and for her paying attention to every little detail (yeah for women!).
Washington Hospital Center, where I had my surgery, has had a Women's Heart Disease Education and Prevention Program since 1996. The program provides information on the specific symptoms found in women and says our symptoms are usually more subtle than those found in men with heart disease. These symptoms are:
– Angina — chest discomfort or fullness.
– Breathlessness — experienced during activities, or upon waking up at night.
– Chronic fatigue — inability to complete routine activities.
– Dizziness — a condition which can indicate irregular heartbeats, or arrhythmia.
– Edema — swelling, particularly of the lower legs and ankles.
– Fluttering heartbeats — rapid heartbeats that may cause pain or difficulty in breathing.
– Gastric upset — nausea unrelated to diet.
The web site of the Washington Hospital Center offers much interesting and useful information. For example, it notes there are risk factors in women that you cannot control (age, family history and race) and those you can (smoking, high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, obesity).
We as women need to listen to our bodies and learn to focus on ourselves. It is not selfish or self centered; it is necessary. Many of us spend a lifetime personally or professionally helping others and put "us" on the back burner. Stress is common among women as we balance our professional and personal selves.
I do not profess to be any type of health professional, and I hope nothing I have written is inaccurate. But I have done this to remind all of you women who read this, and any male reader who loves a woman, to take heed from it. Go to the web sites, think about yourself and try to change a little bit at a time. Heart disease and surgery is awfully scary (and expensive). If I can make progress in this area, believe me, anybody can.

Editor's note: Catherine L. Mills of St. Thomas, a former Human Services commissioner, holds a master's degree in social work.

July 3, 2001 – Big fish, big money: Those were the lures for creating the June Moon tournament last year, and they worked again for the second annual competition, held last weekend and hosted by the Virgin Islands Game Fishing Club.
A 107-inch blue marlin — two inches longer than the minimum required — caught by St. Thomas angler Stewart Loveland on the first day of fishing earned the $36,000 prize for the captain, crew and anglers aboard Salt Shaker, Capt. Eddie Wettengel's 48-foot Monterey.
Fishing with fellow anglers Michael and Brian Wettengel — Capt. Eddie's son and grandson, respectively –Loveland got his bite mid-morning Friday. "I snaked the rod and reeled it in," he said. Snaking the rod in this case means stealing it away. Normally, anglers switch off on rods by a set order of hourly rotations to assure everyone gets an equal chance. But this event is also known for its minimum of official rules, which adds to the excitement.
The Salt Shaker crew held a stick out to the big blue and determined it big enough for a prize. Loveland also hooked a bigger fish on Sunday, but lost it.
Although the eight boats in the tournament did see several blue marlin, underscoring that marlin season has definitely started, it was only Loveland's big blue that was prizeworthy in this event. The prize money was awarded out of the $5,000 boat entry fees after the fishing club took its 10 percent.
The tournament took its name from last year's premiere event, which was held at the time of the full moon. This year's June full moon, on the 5th, was too early to attract gamefishing boats coming down for marlin season from Florida; the July moon, also on the 5th, will occur during this year's July Open Offshore Tournament, a weekend event which has been fished on or around the Fourth of July since the mid-1960s.
The next Virgin Islands Gamefishing Club event is the July Open for youngsters, on the Fourth of July.
Then comes the July Open, Friday through Sunday. This will be the first time in the tournament's nearly four decades that an all-release format is used, meaning that all blue marlin that are caught will be released. To register or obtain more information, call 775-9144.

July 3, 2001 – Big fish, big money: Those were the lures for creating the June Moon tournament last year, and they worked again for the second annual competition, held last weekend and hosted by the Virgin Islands Game Fishing Club.
A 107-inch blue marlin — two inches longer than the minimum required — caught by St. Thomas angler Stewart Loveland on the first day of fishing earned the $36,000 prize for the captain, crew and anglers aboard Salt Shaker, Capt. Eddie Wettengel's 48-foot Monterey.
Fishing with fellow anglers Michael and Brian Wettengel — Capt. Eddie's son and grandson, respectively –Loveland got his bite mid-morning Friday. "I snaked the rod and reeled it in," he said. Snaking the rod in this case means stealing it away. Normally, anglers switch off on rods by a set order of hourly rotations to assure everyone gets an equal chance. But this event is also known for its minimum of official rules, which adds to the excitement.
The Salt Shaker crew held a stick out to the big blue and determined it big enough for a prize. Loveland also hooked a bigger fish on Sunday, but lost it.
Although the eight boats in the tournament did see several blue marlin, underscoring that marlin season has definitely started, it was only Loveland's big blue that was prizeworthy in this event. The prize money was awarded out of the $5,000 boat entry fees after the fishing club took its 10 percent.
The tournament took its name from last year's premiere event, which was held at the time of the full moon. This year's June full moon, on the 5th, was too early to attract gamefishing boats coming down for marlin season from Florida; the July moon, also on the 5th, will occur during this year's July Open Offshore Tournament, a weekend event which has been fished on or around the Fourth of July since the mid-1960s.
The next Virgin Islands Gamefishing Club event is the July Open for youngsters, on the Fourth of July.
Then comes the July Open, Friday through Sunday. This will be the first time in the tournament's nearly four decades that an all-release format is used, meaning that all blue marlin that are caught will be released. To register or obtain more information, call 775-9144.

July 3, 2001 – Big fish, big money: Those were the lures for creating the June Moon tournament last year, and they worked again for the second annual competition, held last weekend and hosted by the Virgin Islands Game Fishing Club.
A 107-inch blue marlin — two inches longer than the minimum required — caught by St. Thomas angler Stewart Loveland on the first day of fishing earned the $36,000 prize for the captain, crew and anglers aboard Salt Shaker, Capt. Eddie Wettengel's 48-foot Monterey.
Fishing with fellow anglers Michael and Brian Wettengel — Capt. Eddie's son and grandson, respectively –Loveland got his bite mid-morning Friday. "I snaked the rod and reeled it in," he said. Snaking the rod in this case means stealing it away. Normally, anglers switch off on rods by a set order of hourly rotations to assure everyone gets an equal chance. But this event is also known for its minimum of official rules, which adds to the excitement.
The Salt Shaker crew held a stick out to the big blue and determined it big enough for a prize. Loveland also hooked a bigger fish on Sunday, but lost it.
Although the eight boats in the tournament did see several blue marlin, underscoring that marlin season has definitely started, it was only Loveland's big blue that was prizeworthy in this event. The prize money was awarded out of the $5,000 boat entry fees after the fishing club took its 10 percent.
The tournament took its name from last year's premiere event, which was held at the time of the full moon. This year's June full moon, on the 5th, was too early to attract gamefishing boats coming down for marlin season from Florida; the July moon, also on the 5th, will occur during this year's July Open Offshore Tournament, a weekend event which has been fished on or around the Fourth of July since the mid-1960s.
The next Virgin Islands Gamefishing Club event is the July Open for youngsters, on the Fourth of July.
Then comes the July Open, Friday through Sunday. This will be the first time in the tournament's nearly four decades that an all-release format is used, meaning that all blue marlin that are caught will be released. To register or obtain more information, call 775-9144.

Concluding a two-part series
July 3, 2001 — While most states are considering banning Internet gambling –- with a few already having done so -– the U.S. Virgin Islands and Nevada are betting the other way, despite untested legal ground and efforts in Congress to prohibit interactive gaming outright.
Opponents in Congress cite the difficulty of regulating online gambling and controlling access by minors, and also concern about gamblers squandering their money with the click of a mouse. Proposed legislation would make it illegal for players to pay for online gambling and would update the Wire Communications Act of 1961, which prohibits games of chance and sports betting over telephone lines.
Efforts in Congress to ban Internet gaming are not new. Several bills generated in the last three years have failed. And the Wire Act is very much open to debate.
Those realities, plus the belief of supporters in the industry that online gaming can be regulated, are spurring the Virgin Islands and Nevada to venture where some 60 countries have already gone to reap the billions of dollars generated each year from Internet gambling: cyberspace.
Testing legal grounds
The Wire Control Act is not clear in regard to the Internet in general, according to Frederick Handleman, solicitor general for the V.I. Justice Department and legal counsel to the V.I. Casino Control Commission. But it is clear on sports betting, which is illegal.
If the law on Internet gambling is "crystal clear, why does the United States Congress feel there is a need to ban it?" Handleman said. "Even Congress knows it’s an area open to interpretation." That, he noted, is a main reason the Virgin Islands and Nevada are pressing ahead with their efforts, adding, "Do you not act because something is nebulous?"
In Nevada, the state’s Gaming Control Commission will likely work with the U.S. Department of Justice to determine whether Internet gaming is legal or not, gaming consultant Frank Catania said. Then the commission will decide it if can be regulated.
"It’s going to take a little bit of time, no doubt," Catania, a former director of New Jersey's Gaming Enforcement Division, said. "It’s realistic to say it’s not going to happen in a year. A guess is 12 to 18 months."
In the meantime, the Virgin Islands is free to press on with its Internet gaming legislation in the hope of getting it on the books before Congress acts. The thinking is that if Congress were to prohibit online gambling after the territory had legalized it, the territory's law would be grandfathered in, as was the case with Nevada and its legalized sports betting under provisions in the Wire Act.
"I’ve heard that postulated before, especially since things are shifting so much," said Sue Schneider, an Internet gaming consultant who chairs the Interactive Gaming Council. "I don’t think that’s a scenario that is outside the realm of consideration."
Considering the stakes
What makes the idea of Internet gambling tricky for any American jurisdiction is that it is essentially illegal. But that didn’t stop the 3.5 million Americans who contributed to the approximately $2.2 billion spent worldwide on Internet gambling last year. Of the billions of dollars waged, Schneider said, 50 percent to 70 percent came from players in the United States.
What that says is that very few off-shore Internet gaming firms are concerned about accepting wagers from places with prohibitions, especially when international Internet gaming revenue is projected to reach $10 billion for 2005. Many online gaming countries and their operators say they are committed to keeping out U.S. bettors by requiring customers to fax a form of identification or by relying on technology to verify players’ country of origin through their Internet service provider. But many others are not.
That could pose a problem for law-abiding jurisdictions such as the Virgin Islands and Nevada. If the majority of current players are in the United States, essentially, then, the only places they could take business from are within their own boundaries or countries outside the United States that don’t prohibit Internet gaming.
"Nevada is the first to pass it to know where a player is from," Schneider said. "Still, the bulk of players are in the United States."
Handleman, meanwhile, said that even though the legality of Internet gaming in the United States is, at best, fuzzy, the Virgin Islands can go ahead and enact its legislation and then tax gaming firms doing business in the territory. But for the Virgin Islands to remain a respected player in the gaming industry, he added, those operators can’t accept money from the biggest market -– the U.S. mainland.
Handleman said his personal opinion is that the stakes are too high not to act. He noted that by the time the Virgin Islands legalized land-based casinos, it was the end of the boom and gambling was an amenity about as exotic as a swimming pool.
"Right now we are poised to take the lead" on Internet gaming, he said. "Rather than pick up the droppings from the cart, we could be driving the cart."

July 3, 2001 — While the Public Services Commission didn’t approve electric billing surcharge changes and two rate adjustments requested by the Water and Power Authority on Friday, it did extend the current surcharges at their present rates through August 2002.
WAPA approached the PSC Friday with three requests, all of which it had submitted in writing on May 15:
– To incorporate four current surcharges into the base rate.
– To increase the "fuel component" of the base rate by 0.75 cent per kilowatt hour, which it said would have the effect of lowering the separate "levelized energy adjustment" surcharge on customers' bills.
– To keep the current levelized energy adjustment rate of 4.9361 cents per kwh in place through the first half of Fiscal Year 2000, then reduce it to 2.472 cents for the second half of that fiscal year.
The four surcharges are listed as "waste heat recovery boiler," "asbestos abatement," "emergency rate increase," and "payment in lieu of taxes." These were originally instituted "to resolve certain specific and timely issues," a WAPA release said, and "some of these issues have run their course."
Last September, the PSC rejected an April 2000 WAPA request for a base rate increase. Instead, the commission extended the existing surcharges to July 1 of this year.
On Friday, two days before July 1, the PSC did not grant any of the WAPA requests, saying a rate study is needed first. Instead, it voted to extend the current surcharges again, this time through August 2002. The extension includes the energy adjustment surcharge at its current rate.
According to a WAPA release, an increase in the fuel component of the base rate is intended to recover not only current fuel expenses but also increased costs which were had not been recovered from previous periods. The energy adjustment, instituted to cover fuel costs higher than those included in WAPA's base rate, is recalculated every six months based on the market price of oil. WAPA submits proposed fuel charges to the PSC for review before implementation.
With an increase in the fuel component rate, the release said, unless there are significant changes in oil prices, consumption and other factors, "customers should see a reduction" in charges for the energy adjustment portion of their bills.
At Friday’s meeting, Joseph Thomas, WAPA’s executive director, said because the price of oil is dropping slightly on world markets, maintaining the level of the energy adjustment surcharge will allow the utility to keep its revenues from dropping. He said WAPA needs to do this because it is behind in its payments to Hovensa, its oil supplier.
According to the WAPA release, the requested rate adjustments "represent dollars that are vital to WAPA’s ability to provide service and meet its present debt service coverage."

July 3, 2001 — To stay in good standing with the federal government -– and the law — the Turnbull administration has completed an audit and financial report for 1999.
Federal law requires the V.I. government to conduct annual audits of federal program money pumped into the territory. Last year federal funds totaled approximately $120 million.
Additionally, the local government is supposed to conduct a full financial audit of itself. But before Gov. Charles Turnbull took office in January 1999, the V.I. government had completed just one audit in the previous 14 years.
Faced with the possibility of losing federal funds, or having "burdensome strings attached" to the money, Turnbull said, he made conducting the undone audits a priority to bring the territory into full compliance with the Single Audit Act by the end of 2002. Audits for Fiscal Years 1994, 1995, 1998 and 1999 are done. The next phase will be completing audits for 2000 by next January and for 2001 by November 2002.
One area threatened with having federal grant funds cut off due to lack of accountability was the Education Department’s special education program. The U.S. Education Department had been holding back millions of dollars of federal grant money because of the poor accounting. With the completion of the audits, federal education officials agreed to release $9 million in special education funds to the territory and to drop special conditions they had imposed earlier.
"Sometimes it’s hard for people to draw a connection between the need to meet these federal requirements and their everyday lives," Turnbull said in a release. "But it is important to remember that no one is going to give us, or lend us, money without accountability."
Turnbull said the administration is negotiating with federal agencies to conduct simplified audits for Fiscal Years 1996 and 1997. That would make the territory current and bring it into full compliance by the end of 2002.

July 3, 2001 – Big fish, big money: Those were the lures for creating the June Moon tournament last year, and they worked again for the second annual competition, held last weekend and hosted by the Virgin Islands Game Fishing Club.
A 107-inch blue marlin — two inches longer than the minimum required — caught by St. Thomas angler Stewart Loveland on the first day of fishing earned the $36,000 prize for the captain, crew and anglers aboard Salt Shaker, Capt. Eddie Wettengel's 48-foot Monterey.
Fishing with fellow anglers Michael and Brian Wettengel — Capt. Eddie's son and grandson, respectively –Loveland got his bite mid-morning Friday. "I snaked the rod and reeled it in," he said. Snaking the rod in this case means stealing it away. Normally, anglers switch off on rods by a set order of hourly rotations to assure everyone gets an equal chance. But this event is also known for its minimum of official rules, which adds to the excitement.
The Salt Shaker crew held a stick out to the big blue and determined it big enough for a prize. Loveland also hooked a bigger fish on Sunday, but lost it.
Although the eight boats in the tournament did see several blue marlin, underscoring that marlin season has definitely started, it was only Loveland's big blue that was prizeworthy in this event. The prize money was awarded out of the $5,000 boat entry fees after the fishing club took its 10 percent.
The tournament took its name from last year's premiere event, which was held at the time of the full moon. This year's June full moon, on the 5th, was too early to attract gamefishing boats coming down for marlin season from Florida; the July moon, also on the 5th, will occur during this year's July Open Offshore Tournament, a weekend event which has been fished on or around the Fourth of July since the mid-1960s.
The next Virgin Islands Gamefishing Club event is the July Open for youngsters, on the Fourth of July.
Then comes the July Open, Friday through Sunday. This will be the first time in the tournament's nearly four decades that an all-release format is used, meaning that all blue marlin that are caught will be released. To register or obtain more information, call 775-9144.

July 3, 2001 – Mary Ann Godfrey, 65, long-time St. Thomas resident, died May 15 in Decatur, Ga. after a year- long battle with kidney cancer.
Mary Ann was an avid world traverler and a lover of life. She was an excellent cook and was known for her orphans Thanksgivings and Christmas dinners. Fluent in French, she taught French at Charlotte Amalie High School. During the 70s, while living in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, West Africa, she taught English as a second language to French speaking children. She also taught private French and piano lessons in St. Thomas.
Mary Ann is survived by her sons, Scott Godfrey, of St. Thomas, Owen Godfrey, of Jacksonville, Fla., her daughter Anne Godfrey, of Ft. Worth, Texas, her devoted ex-husband, Harry Godfrey, of Decatur, daughter-in-law, Tara Godfrey and grand daughter, Megan Godfrey, as well as many other relatives and friends. A private memorial service is being planned for July 8.