Oh,Barbara,  I am so sorry to read this news.   I hope that my snail mail message go to you.  I am so busy right now caring full time for John with Parkinson's and I know that my handwriting was dreadful.  Love to you,  Jan

Godfrey was born to Annie Nee Arblaster, my aunt who passed away shortly after child birth. Godfrey was a very intelligent boy who could read and write before starting school and moved to Bromsgrove at the age of 11 with his father who provided him with the best education. Godfrey was then selected as one of 12 student's that did a student exchange in Russia around the time Russia launched the sputnik satellite which my mother still has on the wall to this day. Godfrey spent a lot of his early childhood in my mother's house and recently told me he remembers bouncing me as a baby on his knee.  He was also a supporter of Walsall town football club and once surprised me by asking me to get 4 tickets to an F.A cup match when Walsall played Birmingham city at Birmingham. He had asked me to get the tickets for the match and flew over from America to treat me and my friend and other cousin ( big John) to come and see the game. Sadly Walsall lost that day but the memory remains. I have fond memories of Godfrey but he was nearly 15 years my elder, the eldest grand child and I was the youngest. In my mother's house ( Annie's sister Sally) she  looked upon Godfrey as her son. I am grateful to have shared a little time with him when I discovered his illness and that will live with me for a long time. Sending my fond condolences at this time  to all his nearest and dearest Kindest Regards John