Jack Wilbur Godbold
Jack Wilbur Godbold was born on January 28, 1929 in Paris, Texas. He was the only child of Sanctus Wilbur Godbold, Jr. and Pauline Minnie Demontel Godbold. Sanctus was a native of Comanche County, Texas and had lived in Dallas and worked for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. He was a descendant of Stanley Thomas of Trigg County, Kentucky. Jack’s mother, Pauline, was a native of Texas.
Jack’s early years were spent in Waco, Texas and in 1940 when he was eleven years old the family settled in Dallas, Texas where he attended the local schools and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1946. He enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Ceramic Engineering.
During the 1950s and early 1960s, Jack worked with several companies in the field of ceramic engineering. In 1950 he lived in South Pasadena, California where he worked as a ceramic engineer and as a ceramic supplier. In 1964, Jack returned to Texas and joined the Monarch Tile Manufacturing Company. in San Angelo. Three years later in 1964 he was named Vice President for production for the company and in 1971 he became the company’s Vice President for manufacturing and facilities.
The Monarch Tile Manufacturing Company had been founded in 1946 and was the first tile manufacturing facility established between the East Coast and California. During Jack’s tenure as vice president of manufacturing and as a member of the company’s board of directors, Monarch became one of the principal tile suppliers in the nation. Jack was a member of the American Ceramic Society and the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers. He served on the research committee of the Tile Council of America for several years.
On August 18, 1950 while Jack was in California, he married Mary Jane Taylor in Los Angeles. Mary Jane was born on March 2, 1930 in Nashville, Tennessee. Jack and Mary Jane became the parents of three daughters. Their first daughter, Mary Jeanette Godbold, was born in 1951 and married Aaron A. Anaya. Their second daughter, Patricia Diane Godbold, was born in 1956 and first married Harold Dean Bitner, then married Gary R. Harper and her third husband, Kerry Tim McAda. Their third daughter was Kathleen Anne Godbold, born in 1964 and died in 2004 and married Gary Lyn Parson.
Jack died on August 21, 1976 at his home in San Angelo, Texas at the age of 47. He was buried in the Fairmount Cemetery in San Angelo. His wife, Mary died on June 29, 2008 in San Angelo at the age of 78. She was buried in the Fairmount Cemetery next to her husband.
Mary Jane Godbold
Jack and Mary Jane tombstone
LINEAGE: (Jack Wilbur Godbold was the son of Sanctus Wilbur Jr and Pauline Minnie Demontel Godbold and the grandson of Sanctus Wilburn Sr. and Mollie Evelyn Moore Godbold. Mollie was the fifth child of Thomas Oscar and Sarah Adelie Thomas Moore. Sarah was the third child of Stanley and Sarah Thompson Rothrock Thomas. Stanley was the seventh child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.)
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