Katherine Godwin

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Katherine Godwin

|birth_name = Katherine Thomas Beale

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|order =

|office = First Lady of Virginia

|term_label = In role

|term_start = January 12, 1974

|term_end = January 14, 1978

|predecessor = Jinks Holton

|successor = Edwina P. Dalton

|term_label1 = In role

|term_start1 = January 15, 1966

|term_end1 = January 17, 1970

|predecessor1 = Lacey Virginia Barkley

|successor1 = Jinks Holton

|birth_date = {{birth date|1917|1|16}}

|birth_place = Southampton County, Virginia, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|2015|3|5|1917|1|16}}

|death_place = Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.

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|party =

|spouse = {{marriage|Mills E. Godwin, Jr.|1940|1999|end=d.}}

|children = Becky Godwin {{small|(d. 1968)}}

|residence =

|alma_mater = Madison College

|religion =

|signature =

|parents = Fenton Parker and Dilla Bradshaw Beale{{cite news|title=Katherine Beale Godwin|url=http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2015/03/06/katherine-beale-godwin/|accessdate=May 20, 2015|work=Suffolk News-Herald|date=March 6, 2015}}

}}

Katherine Godwin (January 16, 1917 – March 5, 2015) was the First Lady of Virginia from 1966 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1978. She was born in Southampton County in 1917 and lost both parents to the 1918 flu epidemic. She graduated from Madison College in 1930 and taught elementary school in Chuckatuck, Virginia, before marrying Mills E. Godwin, Jr., in 1940.{{cite news|title=Katherine Godwin, two-time first lady of Virginia, dies at 98|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/katherine-godwin-two-time-first-lady-of-virginia-dies-at-98/2015/03/06/a6cf1634-c453-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html|accessdate=March 8, 2015|newspaper=Washington Post|date=March 6, 2015}} She died on March 5, 2015, in Williamsburg, Virginia, aged 98.{{cite news|last1=Schapiro|first1=Jeff E.|last2=Cain|first2=Andrew|title=Katherine Godwin, widow of Gov. Mills Godwin, dies at 98|url=http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/article_04921fbb-51cb-58e0-9c88-699ace1c74b6.html|accessdate=March 8, 2015|work=Richmond Times Dispatch|date=March 5, 2015}}