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1928 - 2021 (92 years)| Name | Kathryn/Katherine HATFIELD [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] | |
| Birth | 16 Sep 1928 | Florence, Florence County, South Carolina  |
| Gender | Female | |
| HIST | of Sumter, South Carolina I hope that the this is the correct Kathryn Godwin for the following article. jkh Former Campbell's employees meet for 19 years Posted: Sunday, February 6, 2011 6:00 am | Updated: 11:17 pm, Sat Feb 5, 2011. By JOE PERRY jperry@theitem.com Every month for 19 years, a group of folks has met for lunch, and there is one unifying principle: soup. On Saturday, quite a few tables in a back room at Golden Corral were filled and represented decades of service to the former Campbell's Soup plant, which became Gold Kist in 1991 and then Pilgrim's Pride in 2006. Native Sumterite Kathryn Godwin said she organized the group in February 1992, exactly a year after the plant changed hands. At the time, there were about 800 retirees from the soup plant, she said, and she wanted to keep in touch, pass along information about insurance and benefits, visit with each other, and note birthdays, deaths, weddings and the birth of children and grandchildren. Godwin, who worked at the plant from 1972 to 1991, also organizes outings for the group - Campbell's Soup friends lunch group - which have taken them to company facilities in Aiken and North Carolina and Shaw Air Force Base, among other destinations. "We may have hated each other at times and loved each other at times, but we're all family," she said with a smile on Saturday. An employee of the month award Godwin won in March 1985 spells out how she is the glue that holds this group together, noting she is an "extremely dedicated individual who quietly does her job as well as can be expected," and is "deeply concerned with her co-workers and is always conscious of safety procedures." Ossie Mae Price said she worked at the plant - which produced the state's first frozen TV dinner in September 1966 - from "when it opened till when it closed," a span of about 25 years. Although Price doesn't make every meeting, she keeps coming back to stay in touch with her former co-workers. "Just like family," she said. Dorothy Holland worked at the plant 24 years, she said, while Annie Walters worked for Campbell's for 25 years and stayed on when it became Gold Kist, totaling 42 years of dedicated work. Several people said when the plant changed hands in 1991, the mindset changed to a more corporate and less compassionate atmosphere. The family vibe was lost. With this group, that vibe returns every month. Linda Hopkins worked at Campbell's for 24 years and met her husband Tommy there, who passed away 18 months ago. An arm injury prevented her from staying on with Gold Kist. "That was it for me," she said. Her sister Francis Beasley was only able to work at Campbell's for 15 months, she said. "I'm allergic to chicken," she explained, so she got on at Santee Print Works, where she stayed for 22 years. Beasley still works and said she makes the monthly meeting when she's able. "You get to see old friends you hadn't seen in a long time," she said. "It's like going to your home church, you know?" Godwin said the longevity of the group has outlasted several locations in which it used to meet: Shoney's, Captain D's, Quincy's, Cole's and Ryan's. "So that's quite a record," she said. Once the weather warms up, a bus tour of Charleston is on the agenda. Near the end of the meeting, Godwin joked that she wanted someone to take her place. "Nope. You got it till you die," someone tells her, and the room fills with laughter. Reach Joe Perry at (803) 774-1272. Posted in News, Local news on Sunday, February 6, 2011 KATHRYN HATFIELD GODWIN Posted Wednesday, September 8, 2021 6:00 am Kathryn Hatfield Godwin, age 92, widow of Richard A. Godwin Sr., died on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021. Born on Sept. 16, 1928, in Florence, she was a daughter of the late Lucian Herbert Hatfield Sr. and Ruth McPherson Hatfield. She graduated from Edmunds High School. She was a Boy Scout den mother, Sunday school teacher and nursery worker. She retired from Campbell Soup, where she organized the Campbell Soup retirement luncheons, retirement tours and reunions in 1991 and continued with monthly meetings for 26 years. She is survived by her sons, Douglas T. Foxworth, Richard "Ric" A. Godwin Jr. (Julie) and Timothy "BooBoo" B. Godwin (Cindy), all of Sumter, and Jonathan O. Godwin (Donna) of Memphis, Tennessee; her daughter, Kathie Lynn Armstrong (Steve) of Louisville, Kentucky; 10 grandchildren, Shannon Gradwell, Timothy G. Godwin, Richard "Richie" Godwin, Candace Emmendorfer, Kayla Godwin, Michelle Johnson, Amy Weathers, James L. Armstrong III, Joshua Armstrong and Brian Armstrong; 19 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday at Bullock Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Steve Miller officiating. A private burial will be held at Evergreen Memorial Park cemetery. The family wants to extend its sincere gratitude to Bridget Lemmon for her love, care and support she gave during this difficult time. You may go to www.bullockfuneralhome.com and sign the family's guest book. The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements. [2, 3, 4, 8, 9] | |
| _UID | 0EFBB099C794415797A2CDEFA0272C053234 | |
| Death | 5 Sep 2021 [8] | |
| Burial | 10 Sep 2021 | Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery, 802 N. Guignard Drive, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina [8] |
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| Person ID | I65030 | Singleton and Related Families |
| Last Modified | 8 Sep 2021 | |
| Father | Lucian Herbert HATFIELD, Sr., b. 9 Oct 1887, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina d. 23 Mar 1973, Hampton Nursing Home (Age 85 years) | |
| Mother | Ruth Mae McPHERSON, b. 6 Jun 1906, Florence, Florence County, South Carolina d. 22 Dec 1979, Tuomey Hospital, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina (Age 73 years) | |
| _UID | FB2EE081492B4F48860EB5A2151CEAFD9885 | |
| _UID | FB2EE081492B4F48860EB5A2151CEAFD9885 | |
| Family ID | F45666 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family | Richard A. GODWIN, Sr. d. Bef 5 Sep 2021 | |||||||||||
| _UID | 89BB535194304A209A2F565821926A42EC55 | |||||||||||
| _UID | 89BB535194304A209A2F565821926A42EC55 | |||||||||||
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| Family ID | F45760 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||||||||||
| Last Modified | 8 Sep 2021 | |||||||||||
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