Eulalie Lois Godfrey, age 98, of Caruthers, California, died on May 5, 2021. She was the seventh of 10 children born to parents Elva Taylor Pitts and Leon Alexis Pitts. She was born in Bellflower, California on March 10, 1923, attended Selma High School, Reedley Junior College, and Nursing School at San Joaquin General Hospital in Stockton, California. There she also became a member of the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps to help meet the increasing need for nursing professionals as a result of WW II.
In 1943 she married Merle Keith Godfrey (U.S. Navy Coast Guard), her high school sweetheart, and they remained married for 43 years until his death. She was also preceded in death by her daughter Karen Trettin, her grandson Michael Keith Cox, and her sons-in-law Michael Birmingham and Michael Trettin.